My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.