My mom was the picture of the blue-collar mom: Two and three and four jobs to make sure that me and my sister never needed, that was her thing.

All my musical influences came from my mom, who did everything to music. She played it 24 hours a day, seven days a week in our house. So that's where my love for music came from.

Movies take a long time because movies take a long damn time to put work into. Whereas music, you don't have as much time. I didn't realize that.

I recall my mum tried to teach me how to fry chicken once, and I almost burned down half the kitchen... I don't think I have the patience for cooking.

The unfortunate thing about this planet is that we are in no shortage of ignorance.

I don't want to call myself a perfectionist, because perfection is imperfection.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.