The stars are matter, We're matter, But it doesn't matter.

If you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school.

I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what I do, but people seem to be able to hear it if they give it a chance. I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.