I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.

The light in the North is constantly a thrill for me.

It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

We Live in a World Measured by Piracy because Piracy means Access.

I was part of a generation that changed the world - and it was taken over by poseurs.

I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time.

I really care about my friends and I think I'm kind of the person who would be rounding up all the friends. I'm always getting everyone together.

Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.

The Tao is told is not the Tao.

[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.