The paintings usually start as abstracts and then I look at them and look at them, and like a Rorschach test, I try and see what it is.

It seems like there are always gatekeepers. People between you and the people who are moved by your work. They often make a beautiful thing creepy.

The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it.

I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me.

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

What do you know about music, you're not a lawyer?

If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.

I guess I just want everything to be available immediately.

But, you know, I'd be happy just making music.

It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.

Hope is not an illusion.

If we look at the world with a deluded body and mind, we will think that our self is permanent. But if we practice correctly and return to our true self, we will realize that nothing is permanent

Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

Wisdom tells us we are not worthy; Love tells us we are. My life flows between the two.

For them to have the season that they had, for them to have us on the ropes ... Congrats to the Cavs.

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.