I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.

As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

Human soul is a car and human body is a driver. One cannot run without the other.

Don't spend time beating on a wall hoping to transform it into a door.

I've always accepted applause as making me feel worthwhile. I hope I die being applauded. Just put a chaise longue under me and let me go.

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.

The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

I'm a strong advocate for music. I think guitars are wonderful.

People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there.