Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.

There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.

I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.

As for you, you're unwise: how may you then speak of these things whereof thou ask you?

I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

I am surprised by what people expect of me.

There either is a god or there is not; there is a 'design' or not.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

I don’t have time to worry about the things that could happen. I am too busy thinking of all the happy things that have happened.

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.

I want to make sure that I represent a variety of backgrounds and that represents the reality out here in the world.