I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood.

I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.

There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'