I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.

Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.

Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the middle of the woods, all alone, painting?

We're antithetical. You use your mind one way; I use mine another. I recognize what you're doing, but I can't imagine it.

Imagination is an extraordinary resource within each of us with powers not found in ordinary thought processes.

Where everyone knows your name, and a safe place to raise a family.

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

Any real Bob Dylan fan would sleep with Jonah Lehrer.

If Elmore Leonard met Jim Thompson down a dark alley at midnight they might emerge a week later with thick beards, bloodshot eyes and the manuscript for THE BIG O.

I'm a bloody fun-seeker. Whatever the role is, I'll find a way to deliver the line that is confounding.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little. And you can trust them.

I buy way too many books.

I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage