I became an artist because I couldn't become anything else.

Some visual artworks are made to be talked about more than to be seen, others are made to be seen more than to be talked about. I think I belong in the latter category.

A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows

I like to paint paintings that I haven't seen.

A person’s outlook on life colors their interpretation of specific events. Human beings’ behavioral and thinking patterns enable people to thrive or cause them to live in despondency and despair.

With your goal you make the one.

Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?

Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.

Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees.

It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.

The world we knew as children is still buried within our minds. Our childlike self is the deepest level of our being. It is who we really are, and what is real doesn't go away.

Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.