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.

You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody.

I was lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere, I was lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair. I looked way up my chimney hole, I even looked deep inside my toilet bowl.

May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died.