Some of my work is very instinctive, some of my favourite things I've ever done are just two minute sketches, nothing is better when you get it like that so quick, then other work takes months.

I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas.

I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around until it works.

Women really like the horses, more so than men.

Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that similar. Sometimes I think it's as basic as not wanting to get dirty.

The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the mark I'm trying to hit, however I don't feel I have much control over it.

I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer to a question.

If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away from the story- from the beginning and the ending.

I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only know what I feel.

I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.

Love cannot exist without giving, however giving can exist without love.

It was only when I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen.

The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Never run more than 3 hours straight in training, whether your marathon best is 2:42 or 4:24.

If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.

I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

God's solution is a prayer away!

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.