I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.

I cross out words so you will see them more

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.