You know, sometimes a person's reputation can be far more colossal than the influence of the person. I don't pay any attention to it anymore.

The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.

You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.

I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

How many deaths will it take 'till we know that too many people have died?