I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings.

I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.

The Winnipeg Art Gallery has a good collection of Inuit art, and most of what I've seen I've seen there or in the few books I have. I should spend more time researching.

I don't teach. I don't think I could. I also don't really do anything else artistically, locally.

Taboos are always going to be interesting.Our [ with Michael Dumontier] style has its range and there is room for explicitness in violence, but not at the expense of our classy, highbrow image.

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it's often one that we are willing to relinquish to others.

A committee of three gets things done if two dont show up.

The interesting thing writing about [Buckminster] Fuller is really to attempt to resurrect all of that and to do so for a new generation that has not grown up with him.

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced.

Nature is God's Old Testament.

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.