I worked my WAY through art school as an auto MECHANIC, doing various STUFF including sanding bodywork and USING Bondo filler.

The DISENFRANCHISED should be GOING to ART SCHOOL - not the franchised.

At SCHOOL, I was basically a loner, it was HARD until I was 15 or so. Then I went to art school and was gifted with freedom to do the THINGS I REALLY WANTED to do.

I always TELL PEOPLE that I went through long HAIR. I was a TYPICAL art school scruff. It was GOOD then.

I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I COULD've GONE in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art SCHOOL, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the VISUAL arts.

I went to art SCHOOL, I THINK it helped me a great deal because it TAUGHT me who I am.

There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the ECONOMY of meaning - after all, this was STILL during the tail end of MINIMALISM. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. KEEPING everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.

I did this Super-8 film at ART school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely THRILLED by every inch of it, and would THROW my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would WATCH it.

Only 10 percent of people who go to ART school will still be making art in 10 years. To some EXTENT, you have to want to do it. It's hard. It is something you REALLY have to STICK with for it to work.

I was always most INTERESTED in drawing - most of my CHILDHOOD DRAWINGS are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just FELL by the wayside.

I had a blog and was documenting my life as a college STUDENT in an art school. I had a few comments left by a few girls ASKING if I could do a tutorial on how I did my MAKEUP. I didn't THINK my makeup was all that special, but I try my best to share whatever I can with my viewers.

I didn't start wearing makeup until I was in art SCHOOL, and many of the TECHNIQUES I learned on CANVAS, I applied to makeup.

Playing in my early bands, working as a STUDIO MUSICIAN, producing and going to ART school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid FOUNDATION of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.

In art school, you learn that design is MUCH more than the LOOK and FEEL of something - it's the WHOLE experience.