Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.

Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.

I once went to a demonstration in Aachen against fare increases on public transport. A police officer pulled out a bunch of my hair, and there were a lot of violent beatings. That's when I thought to myself: You'd better leave it alone.

I think that the most important requirement is to capture the essence of a piece of art. You look at it, essentially absorb it, and you have to be able to understand it visually without having to think about how it was done. I was already able to do that as a child.

No one ever ordered anything from me. I painted because I wanted to.

I wouldn't be ashamed to sell my own art for a lot of money.

You can't paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don't need a painting by another artist. I have enough of my own.