I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women.

I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to the body - the patterns and stripes and all of that.

I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.

When you're looking through a magazine, what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative that is going on inside of it. Those are the ones I make into paintings.

I'm interested in the sheer fascination of beauty - beauty is fascinating.

I go everywhere by boat. I don't fly. It makes me feel really immobile but great.

I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.

I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.

I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.

After the original rapture of conversion had settled in, (Bob) Dylan backed away from his obviously Christian lyrics and returned to his more metaphorical use of language.

Thwackum was for doing justice and leaving mercy to heaven.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

The falling flakes were random and without purpose; the snow was drunker than she was.

There is deception. People who think they are enlightened and it's just ego.

You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.

It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.

I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

Kindness is better and can be more powerful than force. Kind words may unlock an iron door.

Trust that you can get back up and not give in. Ever.