Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for both.

God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble.

I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".

Most days I only go out to the post office or to get some food. Otherwise I work on my art or music. I check out the news, and generally spend a lot of time on Tumblr or Facebook or whatever.

I will sacrifice my comfort, my convenience, my economic position in order to stand in protest, but not impose that on everyone else.

My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul Cézanne through the 1950s.

My favorite time is late at night. I seem to wake up and want to work after 10pm, in my bubble of night.

I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk.

I don't like sleeping in a different place every night, but I do like meeting new people.

The issue of innovation never interested me personally, since I believe it may lead to a place where people don't paint anymore.

It's hard to say what exactly I like about New York. It's so vast. It seems to go on and on, but that's an illusion. Still, it's fun to be here, especially since I don't drive.

It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Whatever you do, love everybody around you.

Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.

I don't really know why I went to law school.

When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.

She was ugly from the front, and I said ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly. Well, I could handle it behind her.

Fulfillment is structured in achievement, Achievement is structured in action, Action is structured in thinking, Thinking is structured in knowledge, Knowledge is structured in consciousness

Smile to the future and it will smile back to you