"Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?"

"What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought."

"I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see."

"I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose."

"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

"What is art? Prostitution."

"Art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The darkest nights often reveal that the silence between the notes creates the music."