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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.

You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.

When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.

Art and literature are my surrogate religions.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

I've dabbled in several different religions.

My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.