Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.

I don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping. People do recognize you. They are kind of shocked. Some people like it. It makes them feel at ease. It confirms their hopes that you are in fact similar to them.

They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.

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