I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.

The unsuccessful person neither thinks nor acts

I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.

I've lost some weight. I am on that new Obama diet. Every day I let Vladimir Putin eat my lunch.

My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.

I want my voice to be consistent no matter if it's an original or a translation.

I want to say to the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did.

As a kid, chess was the first thing I studied in a structured way that helped me gain the discipline to study medicine and become successful doctor.

In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be such.

An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.