You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.

It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or painting, and things will either work out or not, and you just have to keep being in the process.

I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

I don't like plots. I don't know what a plot means. I can't stand the idea of anything that starts in the beginning - you know, 'beginning, middle and end.'