I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

If you express yourself too much, you're considered weak.

Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older.

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.

Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.