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.

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.

I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me...

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

Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

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.