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To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.

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

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.

Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

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 a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that is at odds with my feeling that art should aspire to do great things.