Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, that's the reason I live here.

I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.

To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.

You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.

I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two! I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two!

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.