I think it's bad for human beings to be artists. It's awful. You want to do something but you're constantly trying to decide what you want to do. Let's just say it's no place like Hawaii.

Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.

I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.

You basically only discover a new thing once.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.

Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.

I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.

I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence.

Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones.

The constant buzz and pressure and noise and static of the Internet, and the way it makes young people feel makes it difficult to grow up and develop the way one might want to.

Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew there was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too.

I am anyway acting all the time with my bacche log (kids), so I do not miss it at all!

Solitude begets whimsies.

In a way "Drive" is probably the greatest superhero movie ever made.

I'm on national TV in front of millions and I hate making mistakes.