Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.

I like contrasting between black and white and color.

I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.

I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

Your temperament can drive people away from you and then you live a regrettable life

Some people fight with each other for worldly thrones

If life were organized, there would be no need for art.

If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

I like the concept of local education.

Before you can do something that you've never done, you have to be able to imagine it is possible.

For the first time in a long time, our leaders in Washington understand what Americans of all religious backgrounds have long held to be true: through faith, all things are possible.

The radio has nothing to do with metal's existence or non-existence. It's for trend only.

I've been drunk only once in my life. But that lasted for twenty-three years.

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.