Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

I think there's an interesting line drawn towards extreme environments, and the way I define extreme is through a sense of otherness. Or foreignness.

The way that I Am is designed, it becomes a kind of archipelago, which the Bahamas are.

Sometimes I'm inspired by the material and sometimes there's an idea that speaks to a material.

There's always a moment that tilts the scales of the project, and it's always different in every project.

I was born in a small clapboard house on an island, but I also have certain privileges that I didn't have when I was on the island. So that dichotomy again is actually really crucial.

I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to get away from it all.

The idea of being in the desert is fundamental, but it's totally relative, and it's about that membrane: the way that one defines self versus the environment.

I think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a foreigner, I was always the outsider.

I think if art has one underlying value, it's that.

War sells!

Her eyes flashed seven kinds of hell.

Those who cannot cope with difficulties often fail to achieve their aims in life.

I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine.

I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry.

A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take.

Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.

I serve with my art and creativity. That makes me most happy.

Great. I'm psychotic and sparkly.

Know that success and inner peace are your birthright, that you are a child of God and as such that you're entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness.