There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

It's been quite an experience being conservative and living in the North East.

I'd like to work with Justin Bieber. He's talented and he's so young. I know what he's going through. I've lived what he's living through right now. Working with him would complete a circle of sorts for me. And he might find it a worthwhile experience himself.

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela where I couldn't find a place for myself for years and years.

If you search and search and stop searching then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.

I left Jamaica for a while because as an artist I need to experience different things see the world have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash and where previously the brain held a dead fact the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular never-to-be-repeated experience.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.