I really work hard to shape the song so that it's attractive... You don't want to give people the information in an enema.

There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?"

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.

But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.

Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don't know if you're gonna have a dream or what you're gonna dream about.

My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.