“I had some money, I made the best paintings ever.”

I realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.

SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I’ll do some great, awful painting about her.

I start a picture and I finish it.

If I’m away from painting for a week, I get bored.

I try to think about life.

I’d never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.

I wanted to build up a name for myself.

I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

There are about 30 words around you all the time, like ‘thread’ or ‘exit.’

The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you’ve got to realize that influence is not influence. It’s simply someone’s idea going through my new mind.

Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.

The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me – my mother’s side of the family have awful legs.

Abba’s last tour was a success but awful for me.

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced it, it’s almost inexplicably awful.

The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.

In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

An awful lot has been written about my temper.