The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
find light in the beautiful sea. I choose to be happy.
My new one (tattoo) says 'Never a failure, always a lesson' and is kind of my mantra to life, just a reminder. My life is just a crazy rollercoaster every day and whenever I read that it just reassures me.
To me makeup is a major accessory. It can change an outfit, it can make the outfit, it can be the outfit, and that's why I like to play with it.
I'm crazy and I don't pretend to be anything else.
Took an oath, I'ma stick it out to the end.
So much has happened in the past five years, I can't speak for the next five. What I want is to continue to grow. Because I am never satisfied; I always want more. I always want to get better. I always want to climb another step.
One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.
Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.
When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those few people who, shall we say, get it? Really become engaged, become moved by it in their own way. You cannot control what other people are going to think about it.
A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.