An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.
I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping.
If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.
We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.
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.
Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.