Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

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.

When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.