I'm getting more and more isolated as I get on in years. I think people's insanity starts to slowly take over.

I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses.

Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth.

There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration crises. It's weird to be self-absorbed in it.

If I don't have a deadline, I could fuss around with stuff for forever.

I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.

There's a lot of different kinds of success. I'm so dedicated to the making of the art that the rest of my life atrophies, unfortunately.

I can never remember names. I'm so self-centered and have a terrible memory.

They say the one thing that people who live the longest have in common is that they have a religious belief.

When you're younger, you go out and you're convivial because you have to be. But once you don't have to meet people anymore, what's your motivation in going out?

I'm jealous of that time when you could afford lofts and survive on almost nothing. You can't do that anymore.

The tree of life is hope.

Be your best you, and when things get tough always know that you can hand it all over to the universe and it will support you.

Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.

If I'm a character, it's a biographical movie. My character is as close to me as possible. As close to being myself as possible. So my character, J. Cole, is very close to Jermaine Cole.

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well

This case is just as racist as the fictional, but unfortunately all too typical case, in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.

Don't listen to you customers. They don't know what they want anyway.

I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?