What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

A creator always needs excuses.

You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.