Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
“In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy.”
“I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.”