I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

True strength is delicate.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

The rage that had expolded inside me diffused. I didn't know where it had come from. I had a short temper and often acted impulsively, but this had been intense and ugly even for me. Weird.

How Long We Should Wait?

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right.

And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

Those who are late will be punished by life itself.

I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

He alone has the right to break, for He alone has the power to mend.