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

Courage can't make you an artist, but without that courage, you won't remain one for long. First is the courage to be alone in the room where you create, and the courage to face that indefinitely, with no one to say if you are any good or not. Then, there is the courage to follow your work wherever it's going to take you. And the courage to fight for your work.

Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.

My spirit life very much depends on my work. My work very much depends on my spirit life. And I pray every day, as part of my own ritual, to a god I believe in, not a god somebody else believes in.

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.

An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

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.