Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective.

In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.