If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in pinks and greens.

I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

Imagine painting all the statues in the world in the color of the sky

My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.

When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect pitch and harmony and how to write music and all that. At that time, one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of a day and transfer that into musical notes.