A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post war NY painting.

I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to.

Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

I do not take constructive criticism from people who have never constructed anything.

Our lives are cluttered by complexities and that leads to problems. Genius is the one solves simple problems which seem complicated.

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn't matter how many times you fall - it matters how many times you get back up.

I'm a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way through it, you're going to be okay.

One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

My grandfather gave me a watch. It doesn't have any hands or numbers. He says it's very accurate. I asked him what time it was. You can guess what he told me.

I'm not a great fan of people who suddenly manage to pull out the whole track sounding perfect from a laptop. That doesn't feel like any kind of show to me.