I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.

No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.

Everything is dead while it lives.

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art.

I must live in my own excrement, breathe in my own poisonous sticky fumes. Yet I am a human being! I still am. Does no one think of that?

My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

The butterflies I get are not if somebody boos me in the crowd, or somebody talks trash about me during the week, or somebody on ESPN rips me. It's the pressure that I'm putting on myself.

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

Things will go wrong or end up differently than you had imagined, and that's OK.

I just lay in my room for days ... weeks.

It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing.

A team can't work when a guy puts himself in front of a team. I have yet to be on a team like that.

You only get honest expression when I spit in your ear; That means even when I'm dissing you I'm being sincere.