I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes.

I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking.

Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.

I've done a lot of nudes and there's always a sexual charge.

I've consciously tried to be provocative and disturbing.

Of course we're guilty!-That's what we've got pardons for!

Birds do not attend flight schools

One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.

I'’ve been a Hip-Hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother.

Chatter about art is almost always useless.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

[My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.