Some of us are born with a sense of loss. It is not acquired as we grow. It is already there from the beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives.

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?

I was fearless. Wild horses couldn't stop me.