In the end, winning is sleeping better.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

I want to change the system from within the system. And that means focusing and specializing.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.