There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at.

There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it.

The moment is never perfect. It's like that right now - in my head I'm being super lucid, but you never are. You're always fumbling.

The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once.

I'm a quiet person, I'm not a flashy art world person. I'm in the studio in the middle of nowhere. There's sheep and fields. The work has to be authentic in that way.

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.

I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every time. I wanted to dial it back and create a language that was stable and deep.

There was something called Christianity.

It feels nice to emerge from the lies.

Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

When has the pope ever questioned the faith of another private citizen?

I've decided to hire a 'food taster', not because I think anyone is trying to kill me, but because I want to make sure it's not to salty.

I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire if there was enough alcoholized wine.

The greatest athletes in the world play in the NHL there is no question about that.

Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!

I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.