I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi's mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.

When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.