I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.

In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.

I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people.

That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it.

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

Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.