"In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players."

"I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven."

"The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don't have enough of that, and as humans we need it."

"You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble."

"Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation."

"Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it."

"For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry."

"The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on."