I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.

I think it would be great to make a $2 million or $3 million art movie where nobody would really have to go to it. I thought that would be a good project to work on . . . do something really artistic.

When I was in the hospital after I was shot they gave me drugs, but it was so great to get off those.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

...the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.