''I don't like conflict of any kind ... even in my own mind.''

''Somethings have to be broken to be fixed.''

''Everything is in a constant state of change.''

''The human capacity for survival clicks in by instinct.''

''It's all about being able to get out of bed in the morning, motivating myself and getting on with it.''

''Today is just like any other day ..... a good day.''

''After spending months in the making on any one of sculptures it cannot finish without buckets-full-of-enthusiasm.'' 

''Empathy is a good place to start from.''

''Today I am 62 and I remember when I was 52 and 42 and 32 right up to 22 ... to hell with birthdays.''

''Technology is here to stay ... but are we.'' 

''If you feel that life is boring then you will also feel that each day will blend into the next and disappear into a fog of gloom.''  

''What the mind will think the body will do.''

''There's a difference between a suicide and a martyr and that is the collateral damage.'' 

''Friends will only be there because of what you can bring into their life ... everybody is looking for something.''

''I have a single-minded devotion to my work that everything else can be put on hold.''

''Hell has no fury like the artist scorned.''

''Saints can be made sinners.''

''Time quietly kills.''

''We all come into this world the same way but we all can leave it in a different way.''

''Sarcasm is used a lot of the time to stop people from getting 

up-close and personal.''

''Sinners can be made saints.''

''So near to the surface that the laughing rabbits can be heard from above.'' 

''Today is all I have yesterday is a memory and tomorrow ... we will see.''

''No point in waiting around for the sand to run out, I have sculpture to make.''

''My creativity is to bring my imagination into reality and try to frighten myself.''

''After a struggle we must be humble.''

''Today is in my own time unless destiny has other plans.''

''I have to keep setting goals for myself otherwise the cancer is going to take me.''

''In the process of making my art I am conscious of living through the emotions and in the process of living I am conscious of dying.''

''I have lived my life being honest, brutally honest at times and people do not like that ... it makes them nervous.''