Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.

You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

And I figured that he can be my ears and I can be his eyes. A good trade-off, don't you think?

I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.

Reflect within yourself for that reflection is far better than when what you see in the mirror.

Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination.

When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is. It expands your imagination and expands your size of thinking.

... it's vastly more irksome to give up one's own way, than to hear a few impertinent remarks.

When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.