With love I draw what I hate.

Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and unattended.

I don't believe anyone really likes paint, unless he's tempted to eat it.

Any artist who doesn't think he's the best should quit.

Thomson's small oil sketches of the last years palpitate and throb. They are as direct in attack as a punch in the nose.

I make up a set of rules and play within those rules until I win.

I am interested in doing something that cannot be explained.

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

Your mind can destroy your life! Mind your mind

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

I'm not a movie star. People know me, but they don't necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it's not like Justin Bieber. It's a nice thing, people are cool.

Prayers are offered up daily - without charge... Refreshments are served when demanded.

There is no limit to your creative power.

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

No one is ever ordinary.

President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.