Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further.

If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you’re so original!

I don't like religion very much. I think it's all about people trying to be very certain about things that are very uncertain.

Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again. You are going to draw again, so you might as well relax.

People like being alike, joining up, and being part of something.

If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.

I pray, but who I pray to I'm not exactly sure, especially when I'm praying for more money.

I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.

When the road ahead seems impossible, start the engine

He thinks he's comforting a friend after a bad breakup. Little does he know-he's the one who's breaking my heart.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.

It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band.

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it.

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

I decided there must be room for another airline when I spent two days trying to get through to People Express.

Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.