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" When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here. "

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" There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. "

" I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later. "

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

" I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate. "

" I'm a night owl. "

" I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy. "

" I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is. "

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

" I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. "

" I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. "

" I see music as fluid architecture. "

" The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back. "

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

" There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down. "

" I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue. "

" At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar. "

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

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

" No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. "

" To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality. "

" We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers. "

" I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. "

" Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about. "

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

" Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at. "

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

" I believe that I am male and I am female. "