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Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.'

I love Richard Pryor. I love him to death.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes.

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

I'm doing what all modern artists do now, which is nothing - just sit around and dream about things. I'll do what they call 'the stroke of genius.'