I'm a Joker. Dangerous and silly at the same time.

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.

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

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.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

Sometimes death is even better than to confess a secret.

If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win.

America didn't create religious liberty. Religious liberty created America.

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people.

Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.

The big powers are traveling on the dangerous road of armament. The signpost just ahead of us is 'Oblivion.' Can the march on this road be stopped? Yes, if public opinion uses the power it now has.