We don't want to limit ourselves to any specific sound like that was before when we were brought up in classical music.
I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.
I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.
I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
Sometimes when you're looking at your own work, you can't really see, and it's only when you step back a little bit later that you think, "Oh, that's completely in line with everything else I've done".
I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.
I am humbled and grateful for the four years the people of the state of Nevada have given me as governor and I am proud of the work we all did.
Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
If Martin Luther King looked at the Obama administration and saw an intimate connection with Wall Street, he'd be very critical. If he saw drones being dropped on innocent people, he'd be very critical. If he saw rights and liberties violated by secret policies of the government, of the kind we've seen by the National Security Agency, he'd be very critical.