If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

The element of obsession is terribly important for an artist.

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

I never get my creativity flowing. I'm a pro, this is how I earn my living. If it don't flow, I don't eat.

I require and enforce as non-interrupted a state of living as you can get in America right now without going off to live by yourself in the mountains.

An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.