I started going to Bible school really early in life. Being raised a Jehovah's Witness, I had to read the Bible over and over. These stories were so horrifying and really difficult to reconcile. For me, Noah wasn't the story of the graham cracker box with the little animals it was horrifying. I would ask the same questions as a child. "Well, what about the little kids? What about the dogs and cats?"

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.

All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars.

When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist.

Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.

I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.