I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.
The '60s were an amazing time.
When I put my brush to canvas, I never know what I'm going to paint. It's like when you're walking down the street with your hands in your pockets, humming a tune, you don't know what you'll be humming five minutes from now.
Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Dead, Zeppelin, the Beatles - I paint to this music all of the time.
I have 17 full-time archivists working for me who put away in books all the diversity of artwork I do, from drawing to etching to monotypes to prints to lithographs.
I'm more American than anything else. I grew up in China, but I was fulfilled at a young age by American music. It was my biggest inspiration.
If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer.
My biggest love is still planets and stars. If I hadn't become an artist, I'd be an astronomer because I still love it so much.
I studied realism when I was in art school.
I met Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin when I hung out with Michael Lang just before the Woodstock Festival. They were as charismatic in person as they were on stage.
Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.
Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.
I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians energizes me when I work.
It was a special thrill to meet, paint, and hang out with Ringo Starr.
My mother recognized my artistic talent and looked for someone to teach me to grow my abilities. She found an artist on the street who sent his daughter, Umba, over to begin teaching me when I was only three years of age.
I love so many different types of music - hard rock, bebop, jazz fusion, R&B. And I've loved meeting and painting so many amazing artists like Lionel Richie, Ronnie Wood, Sia, Steven Tyler, Swizz Beatz, Taylor Swift, James Moody, The Fifth Dimension, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Michael Jackson. It makes me smile thinking about each one of them.
Marlon Brando came up to me many, many years ago. He wanted me to do a little doodle for him on the back of an airline ticket.
I am very concerned about our planet and am about respecting all living things.
I do not view myself as a psychedelic person but as a yogi. Although most link the Beatles with bringing awareness of yoga to the public, it was myself who actually brought yoga into the mainstream in the United States.
