I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty... love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall…and Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades.

Wisdomis in the insane asylums.The endis in the everyday-pale smiles

We’re all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent.

I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.

Ask yourself: given everything you have to do, is there a way that we can make this better?

I've always been intrigued by the supernatural.

Control is the source of strategic power.

Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.

I'd be more than willing to give names and phone numbers of every makeup artist I worked with.