If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.

Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

What you have to do is break all the rules.

My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.

Cosmic Ordering is with you in all that you do.

In the end it will be your “Actions” “Convictions” & “Thoughts” which will determine how you shaped your life.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

Today is gone. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. Every day, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Be like a very small joyous child, living gloriously in the ever present now, without a single worry or concern about even the next moment of time.

My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty.

Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.

Confucius say, man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day