Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes.

If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.

In times of stress drawing is a way of relieving tension.

I discover methods for myself and then read books that describe 'my' method. This leads me to believe that the creative well is shared in some magical way.

Too much verbal stimulation causes the work to suffer.

I collect words and phrases for naming the children of my brush.

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

I am impressed by the way Annie Kevans captured the different types of beauties that have been my inspiration and my muses from my grandmother to artists like David Bowie and Boy George.

I had a very sexual experience onstage once. But I won't go there.

The ordeal is part of the commitment" Esquire Interview 10/10

Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.

We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.

The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.

By changing nothing, nothing changes.