I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.

I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.

I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.

I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

Greed kills us all.

The joy of living is the gratitude of the moment.

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

I can't assume responsibility for a man's infidelity, no more than I can take credit for his choice to remain faithful.

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

I've got so many musical personalities, I could probably get treatment for it.

Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.

Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission.

I become obsessed with one thing or one look, a Bohemian look for instance, and then I wear that for a while.

I firmly believe that if you're really unhappy with something, then you should go ahead and change it.