I'm a Baroque person. More than Baroque, I'm a Rococo person. I don't draw straight lines.

All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them.

Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public already knows, you're dealing with Pop.

Sometimes people are shocked by what I do, but I'm not trying to be liked, I speak my mind and I don't care what people think. I truly do not compromise on who I am.

I'm like a circus standing on two legs.

I love the idea of reincarnation, so just in case it doesn't exist, I decided to be different people in the same lifetime.

For me, every week is a fashion week.

My childhood was a drag show!

France, stop throwing awards at me! I have so many already, give them to people who need them.

A red nose is the clown's mask and my moustache is mine.

Realism is criminal.

There is always the possibility of a better life with every change that we face, but sometimes we have to look hard for it.

Advice to son: Never confuse "I love you" with "I want to marry you."

you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street so I made up a song that wasn't true. I made up a song called Marriage.

I will always fight for my life for Liverpool, and that will be on and off the field.

I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is.

A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.

If you rise with a positive attitude - because everything is possible, everything is doable - if you have that level of confidence, you exude it. It actually inspires the people around you.

Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without

Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in.