I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

Over the years, I found myself traveling parts of the Lewis and Clark Trail, putting my hands in the river where they set out from St. Louis, viewing the Great Falls of Montana, standing by the same Pacific Ocean they saw with such joy.

I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.

First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts.