Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.