I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He's not just a cat, he's my friend.

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.

There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.

I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.

Joan Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins - that was my mom's era.

I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm.

Lord Kane," the king acknowledged. "Before the proceedings begin, we must say how thrilled we were to meet your PMS." Uh..."My what?" "Your personal male secretary.

There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves.

Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.

The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.

Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy.

Can you imagine the impact on our own culture if American Christians began using their riches as if they belonged to God?

We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.