I see music as fluid architecture.

The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi's mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.

I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist.

You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.

Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.

Rolling Stone hates me. They must have an editorial policy to do me in for many years.

We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.