“They can do it. Just leave them alone. That's a lifestyle I don't want to touch.”

“Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.”

“It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.”

“I don't want to be lonely, I just want to be alone”

“I don't work that way. Part of it has to do with an idea of beauty. Sunsets, flowers, landscapes: these kinds of things don't move me to do anything. I just want to leave them alone. My work comes out of being frustrated about the human condition. And about how people refuse to understand other people. And about how people can be cruel to each other. It’s not that I think I can change that, but it’s such a frustrating part of human history”

“I wanted to touch him like he was a bunny, a kitten, something so special and soft your fingertips can’t leave it alone.”

“Talking with Gary Busey is kinda like sex. You want to do it, you just don't want to be alone when you do it.”

“I want to be alone. I need to touch each stone, face the grave that I have grown. I want to be alone.”

“I just found you - I don't want to leave you so soon.”

“So, just leave me alone,
Leave me alone,
Leave me alone,
Leave me alone, stop it,
Just stop doggin' me around.”