"It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else."

“The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.”

“You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers.”

“I want to create objects that will stimulate the viewer in ways that I am stimulated by these objects. Now that's an ideal situation and the artist has no control over what his audience is going to think, but they can try to communicate some quality, some poetry through the work and just hope that the viewer has something in the vicinity of a similar experience.”

“I didn't go through anyone's garbage. People brought what they felt I needed to know to me.”

Source : Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.

“Discipline comes from the same root word as disciple, and implies patience and teaching on our part. It should not be done in anger,”

“If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.”

“Having people around you that are honest with you, and having a team around you that can actually track and communicate where things are working and where they're not working, is really an invaluable asset to an artist's career. I just see it time and again, people who have no clue about that stuff. It's frustrating, and I see the frustration for them. It's a weird thing being an artist, trying to navigate the music business with little to no help.”

“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”