"In our case, we are in the Cenozoic Era, which started at the end of the time of the dinosaurs. We are in the Quaternary Period, which is within the Cenozoic Era. And within the Quaternary, we are in the Holocene Epoch."

“On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take', the deaf canvas listens, your words flow and you have done something.”

Source : Wendy Baron, Walter Sickert (2006). “Sickert: Paintings and Drawings”, p.91, Yale University Press

“I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.”

“My photography is very European. In America, I always get the sense that people are comforted by understanding what they're looking at. Photography's quite clear here [in the U.S.], it's very well-explained. My photography's perhaps not as well-explained.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com

“Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.”

“All stress is ultimately related to loss or the fear of loss.”

“People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.”

“I love my boys. I love watching them growing up. I love seeing them develop, and I'm always looking forward to seeing what they're going to become and what they're going to be interested in later in life.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. September 9, 2008.

“If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.”