There is a definite moment when a work congeals and crystallizes. Once I am finished with a painting, I am happy to send it off into the world so I can get to work on the next one.

I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go.

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning.

I believe if you follow your heart and do what you love, success will follow. If you enchant yourself, others will be too.

Beyond Brookledge may be the most incredible weekend of entertainment I've experienced in my life.

Never expect too much from the life... it will only frustrate or disappoint you.

Kindness is an extraordinary moment and status even if it has to be pretending.

That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.

I exercise. I go to the gym every day. It's about respecting what you're doing. You're going on stage. You have to sleep. You have to be prepared.

It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.

Somebody was, like, what's your favorite thing about Twitter? And I was, like, Twitter. And they're like what's the worst thing about Twitter? And I was, like, Twitter.

It's definitely surreal to watch yourself in a movie.

I am determined to use competition law to protect European industry and consumers.

For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.

I feel outside of the system where you’re male or female. So I just retired from caring. I don’t represent myself as a man or as a woman. I represent myself by not participating as either.