The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.
I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.
Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.
I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too.
I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.
I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.
The only seed that needs regular watering is our imagination.
love mankind ... it's I can't stand!!
At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there's always an exploration of different perspectives, points of view.
My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.
Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could.
I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't.
I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.
I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks.
I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.
Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.
I think we're going to carry the 'Ice Age's up to 'Ice Age 15,' which means basically they'll be in the present decade.
When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.
