Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.

I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on the surface, not so deep. Beneath it was hollow. Up until that time, I had been thinking meditation was a joke, a fad and a waste of time.

The more you meditate the better life gets.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.