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

The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.

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

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

I wanted to build up a name for myself.

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.