If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

I aspire only to silence.

I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

Fiber optics got slammed last week,

I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.