Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at human beings than a bowl of fruit.
When some people were going around being surf bums and tennis bums, I was being a gallery bum. I really liked galleries.
I'm a great jazz fan.
I've always had a passion for music - it's a real part of me.
My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.
I was always a design junkie.
I always had a fascination with music.
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
I kind of grew up on musicals, specifically, for whatever reason. They're something that really attracted me as a child.
I think the dark psychology of human beings is very interesting as an artist.
I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.
You go with what you 'get,' and I get playing the guitar. It's a challenge because it's not an easy instrument to play. There are so many interesting sounds you can make out of it and so many different elements. I dig it.
Really, the impetus driving me is I've always sung, but I like to act, I like drama, I like text, which is why opera is something I've come late to, I'd say.
I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite serious about it.
I do a film if it interests me, has a connect with the audience and some entertainment value. The rest doesn't matter.
I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.
I'm aware of other artists, but what I'm really most interested in is viewing individual pictures. I like dramatic pictures.
I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.
If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.
I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.
I used to act in plays when I was in school and college, but you cannot say that I was passionate about acting. I was only interested in being a part of the group, and the group was passionate about filmmaking.
Anything that had to do with music is what I wanted to do.
I have a huge love for music and always have.
I didn't set out to do something different so much as do something that interested me. I wasn't trying to be avant-garde - that's being fashionable. You don't set out to revolutionize art, you make statements for yourself.
