Picasso's sculpture has incredible strength combined with a lack of pomposity.

We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There's something terribly brittle about it.

I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people saw things.

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

I did an art foundation course, and I knew I wanted to do something in a creative field. And fashion just seemed like the most fun.

My wife has been incredibly supportive of me as a writer. Trying really hard to make sure I get the space and time I need to work as a writer and being willing to make some of the sacrifices that you have to make to live the life of an artist.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.