I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it