"What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where only certain things can happen, unaccountably the unknown and free must appear."

“Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?”

“When President Nixon declared war on drugs on June 17, 1971, about 110 people per 100,000 in the population were incarcerated. Today, we have 2-3 million prisoners: 743 people per 100,000 in the population. The U.S. has 5% of the world's population, but 25% of its prisoners. As Senator Jim Webb once put it, Either we are home to the most evil people on earth or we are doing something different and vastly counterproductive.”

“Try and benefit others, animals, the whole of the earth, as much as you can. And in that space, challenge yourself to find what it is you can bring about through your life's work.”

Source : "Stephanie Ellis on being vegetarian, human trafficking, and taking ownership of your life". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

“The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space.”

“I love my music and recording people.”

Source : "5-10-15-20: Edwyn Collins". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 17, 2010.

“Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.”

“As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.”

Source : Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. May 05, 2011.

“There is no morally coherent difference between fur and other animal clothing, such as leather, wool, etc., just as there is no morally coherent distinction between meat and milk or eggs.”