I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.

I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.

I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.

I had always loved Joseph Cornell and wanted to do something with dioramas.

I made a tin man costume with tin foil and furnace parts because I thought it would help me be more heartless.

The muted color scheme allows the occasional brighter yellow or red to pop out on the wall in a show, which I like.

I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

I'm not a trained dancer in the slightest.

The process of the body changing and making a whole human fascinates me.

I like all kinds of music but some of my all time favorites are P.I.L., Yoko Ono, T-Rex, and Anton Karas.

When I was a school kid I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing, I would make my own comics about my teddy bear whose name happened to be Ted.

I should have known he’d be trouble as soon as he walked into my workshop, but I couldn’t have known he’d be the death of me.

The greatest goal is to be a God-carrier in your sphere of life

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.

The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it's very sad - very sad to watch.

Software engineering economics.

I have always loved trouser suits. It's something I absolutely believe in for women.

When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.

No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself

I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.