Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?
The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.
I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.
I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb.
The house begins to be a home. The unfamiliar places are beginning to fold the familiar objects into their keeping and to cozy them down. Objects that swore at each other when the movers heaved them into the new rooms have subsided into corners and sit to lick their feet and wash their faces like cats accepting a new home.
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
On her Slave For You video: It's a very sensual video so I thought it was a good reflection of the song. My Mum thought it was. . . different.
I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.
When I'm naked, I really like to do push-ups. No. I think I really tackle it like everything else. If you're going to commit yourself to playing something, you have to be able to understand it. If you can understand it, then you can do it and go balls out with it. But, I've never been in a position where I've been like, "This doesn't feel right. " I wouldn't do it, if it was that. I like the shock value of it. I think that, if you use it correctly, it's pretty effective, as long as I'm lit really, really, really well.
If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.