I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it.

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.

I am no bird

Umpires are necessary evils. That's just the nature of the beast. For years, people have looked on umpiring as a job they could get any postman to do.

The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.

Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.

If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.

Encores! is, to me, a wonderful, warm, welcoming place, and I hope it always will be.

It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.

The song was wordless; The singing will never be done.

Life - life - let there be life!