I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.

All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.

Lucky for me, as old as I am, I can still change.

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.

The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.

The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.

We may have done what the devil said we did, but we are NOT who the devil says we are!

Time doesn't always heal all wounds.

Another purpose for speaking in tongues is the edification of the church.

We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans.

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift with fragrance long after they had gone.

Being a dad is more important than football.

No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I love it and it's my escape.

I don't really know [who my favorite vampire is]. I always think, 'Ethan Hawke in Interview with a Vampire,' and someone will say, 'He's not the vampire. He's the interviewer.'