What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

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.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

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 sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

It's not easy to define poetry.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

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.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

He not busy being born is busy dying.