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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.

I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.

I'm committed to the purity of my art form.

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.

I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once people saw pieces in my house, it became really clear that there was a great demand for my art.