Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published.

I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!

Each book first begins with a little idea.

I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.

I have been drawing all my life.

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.

But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!

If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.

Any goal in life is attainable as long as one follows it consistently.

We're tortured, a lot of us, believe me.

I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side

The only minority in America that's asking for integration is the so-called Negro, primarily because he is inferior, not inherently inferior, but he's economically, socially, politically inferior.

Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.

Your success depends on what you do yourself, with your own means

Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity.

My fans have written me such kind emails. My management at Daptone helped me heal, too. I'm in a good place.