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" Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. "

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" Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right. "

" I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do. "

" I learned a woman is never an old woman. "

" What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song. "

" Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal. "

" My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words. "

" The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. "

" For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews. "

" Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped! "

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" The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil. "

" I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead. "

" America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill. "

" I can't remember anything I ever wrote. "

" The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature. "

" My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. "

" I'd had a rough childhood. "

" Van Gogh was impulsive. "

" Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. "

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" I'm a little young for retirement. "

" My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold. "

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" Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood. "

" I see bodies as individual things. "

" My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die. "

" I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers. "

" I do have this reputation for being a serious person. "

" Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing. "