Sometimes I think that I stay young and in touch with contemporary culture because of my children's interests. I'm so lucky to be surrounded by their talent and vibrancy.

I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the future.

I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.

In a sense the physical connectedness that you feel with your children as a mother changes as they become independent.

When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making the work feels like a blur, and I look at the work and wonder how I actually made it.

The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent.

Whereas cognitive constraints on negative emotions can reduce distress, freeing positive emotions from such constraints can enhance religious experience.

Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.

As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.

My home base - pop music and the Catholic Church.

Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.

I think I've got the best staff in television.

Wherever the trout are, it's beautiful.

Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.