When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.