You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you're sort of entering into a shared space.

I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.

Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

If you are unaware of what's within, you will be shown in the mirror of your near future life experience. Wiser to keep a step ahead.

Out of the chill and the shadow Into the thrill and the shine Out of the dearth and the famine Into the fullness divine.

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

There's no time to hold grudges when you've seen how fragile things can really be.

If I Had My Child to Raise Over Again

Drama is about conflict and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.

... people are capable of more than their organizational positions ever give them the tools or the time or the opportunity to demonstrate.

Unfortunately, many children throughout the UK witness violence in the family home. Let's stand up for those children. Domestic violence needs to stop.

What I really want is a commercial hit. If youre in a hit, youre suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.