Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.