 An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch. |
| I like gettin' old. |
| Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting. |
| I always enjoyed doing transgender songs. |
| I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story. |
| I've always thrived on the encouragement of others. |
| Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about. |
| My sunglasses are like my guitar. |
| Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand. |
| In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter. |
| In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. |
| Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. |
| Christianity made us think there's one heaven. |
| When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep. |
| Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty. |
| I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment. |
| Artists are traditionally resistant to labels. |
| Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand? |
| The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication. |
| In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot. |
