I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.

The people who I thought would be the hardest to work with were the easiest, and the people I thought would be the easiest were actually the hardest.

Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to love them and felt stupid for my immediate reaction towards their work.

I just figured out hustles to get by, like maybe selling my clothes. I wanted to travel around and be broke and live in sketchy apartments.

The last thing I wanna do is sit home and watch television.

I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things the right way. Low expectations reap great rewards.

There is strife (trouble) the moment one enters the worldly life and bliss the moment one enters the Self [the Soul].

The seeds of salvation are buried in every act of evil.

I speak of the human heart, not a logic puzzle." -Diego de Gama

If you meet a cross-eyed person you must plunge into the grass, alongside the chilly ants, fish through the green fingernails and come up with the four-leaf clover.

You have so much to learn from your enemies.

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

Stand up for what you believe in, because you can fall for anything.

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.