I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.