I think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a foreigner, I was always the outsider.

I think there's an interesting line drawn towards extreme environments, and the way I define extreme is through a sense of otherness. Or foreignness.

The way that I Am is designed, it becomes a kind of archipelago, which the Bahamas are.

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

Sometimes I'm inspired by the material and sometimes there's an idea that speaks to a material.

There's always a moment that tilts the scales of the project, and it's always different in every project.

I was born in a small clapboard house on an island, but I also have certain privileges that I didn't have when I was on the island. So that dichotomy again is actually really crucial.

I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to get away from it all.

The idea of being in the desert is fundamental, but it's totally relative, and it's about that membrane: the way that one defines self versus the environment.

I think if art has one underlying value, it's that.

And which one of you wimpy men will be doing the killing?

Paradoxes are conflicting choices or conditions that demand equal attention.

No matter what Dad was always there with solid words of advice . . . "Go ask your mother."

If you're too in your head and you're not in the moment, life passes you by.

Barça has always given me great affection, and even to this day. I only have words of gratitude for them

There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

Sunshine is the best disinfectant

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

Smoke that herb and clear your mind.

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.