I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.

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.

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.

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.

To find your own way in life, start going with all of your heart to find the beauty of life.

My lips have touched more bottles than lovers and I'm half a shot away from psychotic.

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.

Yeah when you're in the middle of filming this movie [Bad Santa 2] it doesn't matter what you say you can think of some sort of way to twist it into something dirty so we were laughing a lot.

I don't think there's a lot of actors out there right now who really know what they're doing at all.

He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called.

If you're using live bass versus orchestral bass, you've got to make sure that you're not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you've got to balance it out.

Remember who you are and what God expects you to become.

I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it.