I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.

The light in the North is constantly a thrill for me.

It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.

I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

God created human beings in his own likeness.

Find your focus by seeking all that is good in your life.

A winner rebukes and forgives a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

There's this whole idea of perfection. What young girls don't realize is that these girls do have problems. It's good for people to realize everyone is human.

I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.

There were no Latin people on 'Star Trek,' that this was proof that they weren't planning to have us around for the future.

Michael Jordan always wore his Carolina shorts under his Bulls' uniform.

The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand.

Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.

Life is like Avant Garde. It will make you uncomfortable, and leave the room. But always remember to come back and watch the artist bow.