I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
It's not easy to define poetry.
I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.
I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.
People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
I never saw myself as a folk singer.
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
You can't be happy by doing something groovy.
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
The radio makes hideous sounds.
Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
I'm inconsistent, even to myself.
