There's something when you're always immersed in the natural landscape where it becomes your healer, in a way, at the same time that it also becomes sort of frightening. I guess that's how I see things, in that form of duality.

In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment.

I think every one of us dreams, and we know what the quality of a dream is. In many ways, the reason dreams are so - mine are a little bit nightmarish, is that it's when you're really naked and can really face the things you don't face in reality, your darkest anxieties.

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

Nature has the most powerfully healing effect.

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply investigate these ideas.