I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly.

If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.

That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.

I believe I am quite amiable and affable and quite fair, and I've rarely worked with people who are the opposite. Moodiness scares me. What gets to me is unkindness. Madness. Unwarranted cruelty through words. People who scream and shout at work. I hate confrontation and violence. I've done it in the past and I don't want to do it again. I guess I want a perfect world.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.