Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.

As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.

I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49 and turn it into a movie.

My car is always black. I really struggle with red cars. I don't want to attract too much cop attention.

There's a great Albert Camus quote: 'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.' When I first re-emerged, I was embarrassed to walk down the street. People would come up and say, 'I heard you were dead!' But I had to remind myself that a lot of the stuff I went through was pretty brutal. I'm definitely thankful that some of the rough patches are behind me.

It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.

I'm a text artist. It's an unsung art form because it's so ahead of its time.