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

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.

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.

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

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.

Maybe what my sister wanted was to stay here and get married and have a family.Maybe that was her color of extraordinary.

My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

I play sports.

I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

When we marry, we are authorized to take possession of the other person, body and soul.

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.

I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.