It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.

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.

No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked.

I don't ever really feel that wearing my wedding ring is what determines me being married or not.

No one expected the preacher's daughter to sin, but they sure would love to catch me at it.

And I think I have a distinct voice.

Put on your yarmulkahHere comes HannukahSo much funnukahTo celebrate Hannukah

You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on.

Find one correct answer and let the rest disappear.

Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.

That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.

You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.