For I desired, as Youth does, to be taken by the hand and hurled into the world.

He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe)

If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.

I'm here right now and I want now to be the greatest time.

If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.

I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.