We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

All ideas grow out of other ideas

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted fragments and comb them into light.

the lost sense that we play out our lives as part of a greater story

Forget the fictional characters – how many authors are being stopped on the street?

I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph.

If you look back at yesterday and think it was a big deal, then you haven't done anything today.

Mesut Ozil made me the worlds best striker

Believing something doesn't change who you are. Neither does rejecting something you once believd in.

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."

The weakest believer is a member of Christ as well as the strongest; and the weakest member of the body mystically shall not perish. Christ will cut off rotten members, but not weak members.

While prosperity is in some ways related to money, it is not caused by money.