It seems like there are always gatekeepers. People between you and the people who are moved by your work. They often make a beautiful thing creepy..

I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way ….

But, you know, I'd be happy just making music..

If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that..

What do you know about music, you're not a lawyer?.

I feel cleaner on the days where I am painting as opposed to the periods when I am not, that is certain to me. In a sense it is a transfiguration, wh….

I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me..

I have an idea of a set of colors and see what I have. A lot of things, the best, more magical things in the paintings just sort of happen. They aren….

I don't really stay away from politics but the bullshit just gets to be too much. Any political tweets I take down after an hour or so. They are met ….

I think humor is actually a very serious thing. I think the people who shaped culture, for the better, in the last 50 years or so, more than almost a….

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths..

The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it..

I think the Native Americans had the right idea about preserving and respecting the earth. Not just using it up. We are not the center of the univers….

When I was about 17 I knew that I was going to be serious about music. Before that I thought, fairly certainly, that I would be a writer. Before that….

I attempt to create a world that hypnotizes me as I make it. I hope others can get lost in it in the same way, but to be honest, I don't care that mu….

There are people clamoring for the election of Donald Trump because they hate anyone whose skin is a slight shade different than theirs. They are cal….

I guess I just want everything to be available immediately..

I start out making my paintings for me. I don't see it as a form of communication. Until, of course, after they are done and I want people to see the….

The paintings usually start as abstracts and then I look at them and look at them, and like a Rorschach test, I try and see what it is..