As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

It's never been a point of reference to look to a man. It's not always a good thing, I suppose, but I think independence is always preferable to dependence.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

Devotion means who you are should merge with what you are doing. Otherwise, whatever your activity may be, it will not be of any great significance.

My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.

My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something