Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Take a walk on the wild side.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.

I've tried never to be easily satisfied, and I've been painting like fury now for forty years.... I have a feeling. You paint about as far as your emotions go, and that's about it.

Starch makes the gentleman, etiquette the lady.

Live is exciting, live is real, the people are there.

To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.

Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]

I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy.

Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.