The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.

I like contrasting between black and white and color.

I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.

I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

Trees are the earth's example of beauty, duty, wisdom and happiness.

More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words.

No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.

I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place.

I think producers hate me because I will sing something 20, 30 times before I feel it. I always know when I hit it the way I want to, but it's really all in my head and no one else can understand it.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.