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I don't know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we're all pretty much insane.

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

I think everybody has had emotional distress, but yes, I think I'm pretty stable.

If I'm not invested emotionally, the artwork doesn't feel emotional.

I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.