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Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

Unfortunately, I haven't thought sufficiently about art. What I never realized - and it's really stupid - is the art world is the art world because all these thousands of famous and not-famous artists do things, over centuries. This hadn't occurred to me.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together.