Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

I would rather be stricken blind than to live without expression of mind.

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.

For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.