Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune it any way you want, and make some noise, and see what you get. And work on it until you get something that you think is interesting. That's all there is to art for me.

People sometimes ask me, because of the blacklisting, "Do you hate the government? Don't you hate white people?" No, it's greed that's the problem.

Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.

I'm trying to entice people, and sometimes my information is very hard hitting. So I've always wanted to have a soft approach.

Children don't have to be raised. They'll grow.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.