The composition happens as the work progresses. Often the messy background makes it easy to disperse shapes as needed. I'd rather it took over me than I took over it.

I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through accidentally.

People and things have edges, but where does a landscape stop?

When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design and composition of my later works.

If this was what it meant to be human, for now she saw more clearly than she ever had done, she didn’t want to be.

To die: - to sleep: No more and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi.

That, we encourage, and I think we're doing a pretty good job with the website and also the DVD, like the first season came out and the second season's being prepared now.

The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.

Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one.

I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.

I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

Not every lake dreams to be an ocean. Blessed are the ones who are happy with whom they are.