This is really some intense shit. Really intense.
This is really intense shit. Really intense shit.
And that's it. That's not a song. I mean, I just don't want to use
your battery. I was discovered by my mother for doodling on the wall. I used to sleep on
a bunk bed and at night while nobody was looking, I would draw my little cartoons on the wall.
And one day she discovered it and said, oh, we are here in Divo, Jose Conejito, Tamponito.
And I said, and I was proud. So I said, for you. For you. And I was received with a
cocoa tassel. Many people know what a cocoa tassel. It's that cup. Oh, no, it's in the
wall. I do some weird, weird art work. A little bit unusual, because it's cool. I started
doing art from about age seven. My parents were supers of the building, and I was exposed
to a lot of different materials, wooden glass and tar and all this stuff. And the base was
my adventure land. Around 1959, there was a very big blizzard, and my uncle told me,
come on, I want to take you someplace. And we went walking up to Fulton Street in Brooklyn.
And I'm wondering where we're going in the blizzard. When we got to the place, it turned
out to be a big art store. And when I walked in, I was blown away. I had never had an art supply,
anything. I had the medium in my hand to say, I can do it now. I could, I could create.
The ability to reach a part of my soul that is the deepest connection to the universe.
I started doing Alvin cover art at a very young age. My family was always deep into
the music. And so I naturally started making designs and visual imagery for the music that
I love. I really don't know what my life would have been like without music and art.
I've battled through a whole lot of the present, and I've actually coped with life's
curveballs all too hard. Art was there to help me through, man.
I don't think I'd rather be anything else in this world, other than an artist. It's
almost the next thing to the gods. I wouldn't be anything else in my life. I've got to be
an artist. Now and after I die, who the fuck am I? When I get to heaven, if they ever accept
me, that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to be an artist. I'm going to make it true
for nobody, or hamburgers, or potato chips. Nothing. I'm going to be doing art. That's
what I'm going to do forever and ever and ever.
I'm going to be an artist.
