A great painting is something that you can come back to again and again.

It’s important to me that people hear my music on its own merit and not in relation to another project I’ve done. Ultimately, the music has its own energy and message and stands on its own.

Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it.

There are famous examples of people who just had really strange ways - [Jimi] Hendrix being the biggest example of that. Or someone like Keith Richards, he just has a really idiosyncratic style.

In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that.

American politics are important because it affects the entire world in often negative ways.

No outside events can disturb your inner peace.

He was free and unencumbered. Which is to say alone and unemployed.

The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin.

Many young people are still driven to art, as in olden times. Most of them are driven by their parents, who know nothing about art—only that it exists.

I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.

I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.

As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.

The people closest to you need to hear your words of encouragement the most!