On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.
As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly.
I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.
A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.
I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.
My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.
I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.
With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.
What I feel I am doing now is giving to the people exactly what they paid for but never actually heard before.
Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers.
I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.
The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.
I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
