A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.

Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.

I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.

I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.

I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.

Mysticism and supernaturalism are the descendants of ignorance and fear.

For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff.

If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.

The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.

As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything.

I have written too much about lives - I feel I have lived for too long.

Next year we have to be even better. If we want to be a big club this has to be one of many.