I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it.

Seeing a play, listening to music - you'll always contextualize it in your own way. Whoever you are, wherever you are; I think that's really important.

I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been completed.

I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.

There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

Did you seriously just use the word 'loins'?

Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you.

As much as I would love to do roles in big movies and am keen to establish myself in the industry. I don't want to sacrifice things that I really enjoy, like spending time with my family and friends.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

It's a lot of work to read a crummy script.

Smoking pot makes people talk for long periods of time, for instance, so people who advocate pot won't shut the hell up about it.

Killing time takes practice.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.

I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.