I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

All ideas grow out of other ideas

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!

Prayer makes no sense apart from waiting.

Why are you sad, when you can sing a song?

Although social media is a relatively new form of communication, it has become the primary way retailers and customers are interfacing.

Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.

Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.

I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be that I can improve as a writer and just be able to say more of what I want to say throught the music.

On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.

Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.

It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler.