Late style gets simpler and shorter, and here, I'm getting more abundant as I get older!

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.