Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged.

It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.

Maybe I should see things as they really are and not as I want them to be.

Those who cook up stories will get into hot water.

It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.

If you're wanting glamorous or really beautiful or really sexy, well then, I wasn't really the one, but I could do all of that. You could just get really lost in that kind of image.

Formula One is not just multinationals. It's also about national players wanting to get global coverage.

When I see a good film, it's like a whiplash. I run away, in order not to be influenced. Thus, the films I liked most are those I think least about.

We always translate the other person's language into our own language.

I don't do Twitter, Facebook; none of that. My email I do from my Blackberry or my iPhone.

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.