I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.

Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

My best ideas come when I distance myself from day-to-day operations. It gives me more focus.

I want to work with Peter Robinson as first minister in a positive, constructive way and leave the elections to the electorate.

Despite not looking like a matinee idol, I feel like I have a lot to give. I've never had any trouble with women. People are always surprised with the romantic aspect of my movies.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.

What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.

The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.

There's a lot of pressure on kids, period, just to be successful in life.

When the joy of the job's gone, when it's no fun trying anymore, quit before you're fired.

Don't organize in the spirit of antagonism; that should be beneath your consideration.

Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.