I don't know how to sell out. If I tried to sell out I don't think I could.

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

I still believe in the power of the word, that words inspire.