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.

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.

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

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.

I always had wished somebody else would sing my songs, but there wasn't anybody who knew them, so I sang them myself and eventually became a better singer and guitar player.

I was playing with sound like I would have played with pots and pans as a kid.