When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'

I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object.

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.

Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving. Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I set out to just take a leisurely drive, it's blue skies and puffy clouds and time.

People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like a collection of Ready-mades.

I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.

Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.

Above all, the photographs I use are not arty in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as fine art; its only place is in the commercial world, for technical or information purposes.

Each and every minute spent reviewing one's lifestyle is never wasted. A better life comes when one takes time to re-order his/her steps, having learnt lessons worth applying!

You know." he said, resting the fiddle in his lap, "once you love something enough--enough to let it consume you completely--it becomes part of you, even when it's buried and quiet.

If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.

The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself.

He's started anticipating what's going to happen before it's even happened.

Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.

I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Be authentic and organic. It can't be forced or it won't work. And most importantly, have fun.

Objects damage pictures.