I've always been very supported. I've never really been sad. I've just been broke. They are very different things.

I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.

Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive.

There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.

But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.

Each time I step on the basketball court, I never know what will happen. I live for the moment. I play for the moment.

You should really try to live your childhood when you’re a child, because if you do it when you’re 26, it can be dangerous.

I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

I'm just a proud papa and it's nice to get that validation from my colleagues in the industry. You get up, you pull your pants down and you're like, "Here it is!"