Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.

If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.

Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the worse.

We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

Poetry is good for unleashing images.

The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right.

I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery.

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.

The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.

To die fulfilled is to have discovered self and purpose and to achieve all that comes in these two packages

Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.

I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.

I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay.

I don't think that the real enemy of the music industry is illegal downloading; I think the real enemy of the music industry is radio.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

My main goal is to try to make fun for everyone. And to see my fans responding to it and to see them having fun is really rewarding.

My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.