And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

When I'm traveling to promote my book, I feel like an artful impostor. What I really am is when I'm in my (painter's) studio and when I'm writing. With actors, it's the same thing. They're kind of artful impostors in public. When you get to know them, they're different people.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

The heart of another is a dark forest.

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.