I always had a vision in my mind, a dream in my mind, that art should be done in a certain way. And I never had seen it with my own eyes, but I always had it in my mind. So I accepted what I saw, and thought, that's as far as it gets. Then when I came here, and saw Jacob's work, it was like the vision I had dreamed of, since I was a baby. I saw my vision could be done.

But he wasn't somebody I could just approach. I knew that, he wasn't just a regular man sitting here. I made up my mind, I'd give my whole life, I knew I'd have to take something from him, because he wasn't going to just give it. I knew it was going to be lot of work, but I already made up my mind that I would rather die trying to be an artist than to do anything else.

Since I was a baby, I've wanted to be an artist. I feel it's the only thing I could do, and I couldn't stop if I wanted to. A lot of people think I'm crazy, because I don't think about money and I've given up a lot of things: family, friends, body life: it's not enough. I can party, I can do everything physical, I still feel like there's something missing. It's just not enough.

I come here everyday with Jacob, and at night I paint and draw until 2 o'clock in the morning. Right now I'm at the beginning stage of learning, so I'm most familiar with the pencil. I copy DaVinci, Michelangelo. Sometimes I'll sit and stare at a page in an art book for hours.

I want to do at least one masterpiece work for God. But it's not easy doing masterpiece work.

If someone said to me I could choose between four billion dollars and the knowledge that Jacob has given you, I would have to go with the knowledge that Jacob has given me. I think about it every day.