People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.

I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.

I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?

For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.

Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time.