Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.

We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about our own troubles.

Everybody knows the story of The Smiths. You can still go and see Morrissey.

Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'

I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called 'Devlin,' which ran for seven years, and I was on lunch pails and coloring books and all of that. It's really interesting being a coloring book when you're young - most kids colored in coloring books, but I made money off coloring books.

To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.