'I paint because it gets me out of my head and into my body. Although sometimes it gets me further into my head and that is not a good thing. When I’m lost in it I feel alive, yet when I’ve lost it I feel the opposite. Eventually it comes right if I just keep going. On the good days I am not thinking much of anything. When I am thinking too much, chances are it’s gonna come out crap. So I try to forget about the world and let myself be subsumed and infused with a greater consciousness, the muse or whatever it may be. Some days nothing good seems to happen. It’s all shit and I am quitting (forever). Other days my head is quiet and I am productive, mindful, present and living in the moment. I think it’s important to separate the thinking and the doing as it seems to me that they are two different processes. We do, then we think, then we do again.

I like painting because I like painting. It’s something I have always done. Whether I was predestined to do it or nudged in the right direction is irrelevant to me because it’s what I always remember doing as a kid: drawing, doodling, painting, playing. I paint because it is important. It’s important to me and that’s enough. But I also think it’s important for the world. Art is powerful, it allows us to connect with the transcendent and I really believe that. People talk about reaching nirvana or bliss through meditation. But when I look at paintings I see the products of devotion, ecstasy, joy and dismay all rolled up into one. Good painting should be a way for us to see what it is like to live.'