You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.
It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.
I kinda live where I find myself.
I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.
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 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.
A song is anything that can walk by itself.
You can't do something forever.
Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
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.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.
I'm inconsistent, even to myself.
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.
Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.
The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.
