I'm compelled and dedicated to transmitting emotions and I care for very little else.

Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.

Love slowly like a ship full of flowers.

When the critics come around it's always too late.

Be persistent like a mosquito, at the end you will get your bite

My biggest influence is rap. It spoke to me, probably because of my upbringing in Christiania. You listen to 'The Chronic' and you can hear that anger and frustration.

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that

I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

Trend following is an exercise in observing and responding to the ever-present moment of now

You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people.

At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.'

I've kind of always done diagrams. It helped me think.

If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal, it is not easy to provoke a battle, and fighting will be to your disadvantage.