A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.

People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he started out one way, and then he tried something different, and then he seemed to spend his whole life trying to get back to the first thing.