You know what? They need me, I need them, I’m leaving this thing, my life is over. I’m just gonna go back and die. And what happened was quite the contrary, it was amazing.
And it wasn’t easy right away, but I started painting, which had been a parallel interest my entire life…. And so when I returned, and the air was clean and I could think straight, and there were beautiful young people around that needed the kind of light that I had just come from.