When you consciously decide to breathe more slowly and deeply, you alert your body to the fact that you want it to behave differently. You are not just changing your breathing pattern, you are making a full-body announcement that you are entering into a different relationship with your mind and your body.

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.

An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.

Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.

A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.

An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.

Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey.