There's always a moment that tilts the scales of the project, and it's always different in every project.

I think there's an interesting line drawn towards extreme environments, and the way I define extreme is through a sense of otherness. Or foreignness.

The way that I Am is designed, it becomes a kind of archipelago, which the Bahamas are.

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

Sometimes I'm inspired by the material and sometimes there's an idea that speaks to a material.

I was born in a small clapboard house on an island, but I also have certain privileges that I didn't have when I was on the island. So that dichotomy again is actually really crucial.

I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to get away from it all.

The idea of being in the desert is fundamental, but it's totally relative, and it's about that membrane: the way that one defines self versus the environment.

I think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a foreigner, I was always the outsider.

I think if art has one underlying value, it's that.

You were made for a particular purpose, but you can be anything you want. Anything, including that.

When emotions are long held and extremely complex, it sometimes takes years for them to enter fully into awareness.

In the eyes of Buddha, there are no evil people, only people who don't yet have light in their hearts.

Would you approach a crazy person with a loaded gun? Well, that is exactly what you are doing with some police officers when you approach them.

Each of us is born into our own mysteries but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!

Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.

I live in Minnesota. Lots of people assume that if you want to be an actor, you have to live in Hollywood, but not me.

Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.

Bethlehem and Golgotha, the Manger and the Cross, the birth and the death, must always be seen together.