Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.

I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He gets a bad rap; hes very misunderstood. Hes a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.

We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.

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.

Rolling Stone hates me. They must have an editorial policy to do me in for many years.

You win the lasting laurels with your laughter.

You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.