When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.

True strength is delicate.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the f

There is power in confronting your fears. In knowing what it is you fear above all, you can prevent it from becoming your reality. There are always choices.

Being on the side of the Light is much tougher than being on the side of the Dark...

Sometimes anger pave the path of success.

God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope.

I'm not in any way selling out by having a record that's good enough for radio.

It's not good fishing before the net.

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

Even after I got some recognition and success, I still had to work hard and prove myself.