The personal is the political. That's an old tagline.

My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way of economical storytelling for me.

That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.

My dream is to collaborate with a mature person.I feel like my talents were being wasted in art school. I would like to try something else, but not the obvious or usual thing.

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

I'm making art and making decisions and editing things. I don't live my life to broadcast it into the art world; I don't see it as my life on the stage.

I think this is pretty clear, but maybe not to everybody: Despite the fact that the work is personal or taken from life, it's not about me telling my personal story.

Because I'm always working on something, I'm always thinking.

I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

Sometimes ones man's creativity is another machine's brute force analysis

The only unavailable choice was whether or not to have Parkinson's. Everything else was up to me.

In this city, every deserted street corner conceals a crowd. It appears in a minute when something disrupts the way in which the world is supposed to work. It can disappear almost as instantaneously.

I wouldn't be windmilling a Fender Telecaster if it weren't for Pete Townshend.

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

I try to keep it positive and play it cool, shoot up the playground and tell the kids to stay in school.

Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance