There's only a certain amount of works you can make, so you have to make only the ones you really want to make. It's all about trying to be as productive as possible.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about.

You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.

The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.

... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control.

New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.

not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.

There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.

Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent.

Lonely’s a different kind of pain, it doesn’t hurt as bad as heartbreak. I preferred it and embraced it ‘cause I reckoned it was one or the other.

I love you. I know what a body suffers, but I cannot forget my lessons.

Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority.

Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.

Off stage it's cool-out time. You can't funk and roll ALL the time.

Talking to fans has really blown my mind. It's made me so happy to know my work has touched people.

It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men.

The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech.

Architecture is not about space but about time.

People who build hope into their own lives and who share hope with others become powerful people.