I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.

When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith.

I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.

Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.

The world needs someone they can admire from a distance

There is a cost to loving anything, or anyone. No one tells you that when you are young.

Stop your ignorance! Seek for wisdom and give understanding a way!

We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.

But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned so much from him.

You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit.

That's what it's like to be a comedian. You basically stand and stare at the world and hope it craps out cause that's a good year for you. So that's not a pleasant feeling.

You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.

Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.

Life isn’t a music player where you choose whats being played, it is a radio where you have to enjoy whats being played.