If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.

Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.

I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.

I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.

I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

Far too often we allow the hurtful words of others to define us. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label.

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.

Further up and further in!

If I'm not touring I'd just be at home, just driving - I'm kind of at a loss for how that stuff works.

The experience of bliss can be the purest one of all and therefore the closest to God.

Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.

The scariest thing in it may be the way the clock radio has a way of turning itself on, loudly, of its own accord. The song is always the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun." Now that's horror.

The world needs ditch diggers, too.

Wish I could prove I love you, but does that mean I have to walk on water?