When it comes to my art work I would say that I am a perfectionist, although my sketchbook, and my process, is a mess.

There is a branding influence on my work. But there's nothing really new about people as brands. The only difference is the scale and exposure.

My favorite works are the ones where I get to expose what is really behind the "brands."

As part of my research, I read a lot. Then I think and do a lot of sketches. I'll never go to work on the computer unless I have ideas first.

I live opposite an amazing wood in London, and you can usually find me sitting there for hours and sketching. Sometimes the icon or symbol leads me to the face, but usually it's the other way around.

There is no success where there are no secrets.

Living your life is a long and doggy business. . . . And stories and books help. Some help you with the living itself. Some help you just take a break. The best do both at the same time.

You can't save the world...save YOUR heart. Be a catalyst & create a life where you are powerful. Rebel. Be happy & allow others happiness.

The Finn is the most watery person in Europe... Here people take baths that last three or four hours and steep their bodies in water right down to their most secret selves.

I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs to be revisited. Jack Kerouac needs to be seen in the context of a lot of other artistic activity.

Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.