I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

Prayer is your attempt to bring your will and desires in line with God’s will.

Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

Before I started working here I drank smoked and used bad language. Thanks to this job I now have good reason.

There was a Texas Ranger one time who said that there's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.

The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.

Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.

If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype.

Whenever I go overseas I buy funny eyelashes. For example the same brand that are in Japan and England are different styles. So I bought both.

I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.

We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.