My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you that sense of possibility.

It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.

All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

Plant in the land of children whatever you wish to see in the life of our times

If I can send you a sign, I will.

I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time.

I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.

The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.

Brought to you by raising your voice. The next best thing to being right.

Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are

This is one big problem with working remotely: no one believes you have a job at all.

To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

Perhaps one of the most important lessons that I continue to have reinforced is to always have faith and believe in yourself. To never lose sight of who you are and to know yourself.