I guess gritty is the word that you said. But it has a different tone. We're not flying around in different universes - it's a bit more earthy.
You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.
The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
I've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out.
I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
I was at the table with three Europeans, and we were having lunch. And they were talking about their role as lead authors. And they were talking about how they were trying to make the report so dramatic that the United States would just have to sign that Kyoto Protocol.
Being a musician is a noble profession.
Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to.
Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.