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When I was an art student in the early 60?s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.

Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

In a personal way, to do with family and the father-son relationship, in a kind of artistic way with regard to him being an art student. I also studied the visual arts at Lancaster University. I then decided to become an actor as he was becoming a musician. And then as an actor/performer, we have similar sort of interests – music hall and that whole world. So, there’s a lot that I felt connected with.

I was a student in London in the ’70s, so CBGB really wasn’t on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn’t stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.

No one on the street thought anything of the downtown girl dressed in black who had paused in the middle of midtown foot traffic. In her art student camouflage she could walk the entire length of Manhattan and, if not blend in, be classified and therefore ignored.

My studio is arranged so that I have a comfortable seating area for meeting with clients, an office area beyond that and a painting area, which includes room for art students to sit and watch as I work.

I’d gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.

There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it’s a flighty thing at best.

Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette… Many pictures haven’t become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel’s worth of colour.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it’s really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it’s all art.

I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.

And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.

Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn’t know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.