Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

All ideas grow out of other ideas

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

There is a major difference between a scuba diver and a drowning man. One is in control of his experiences, the other is in over his head.

Fortunately, I'm in a band with people who really like and respect each other personally.That makes this whole experience so much better.

Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.

The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

I voted for President Bush. I voted for President Clinton and although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.