Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.

A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it.

My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable.

I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.

I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love.

One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.

We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not.

Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.

I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.

It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.

Sometimesi don't haveenough soulin my cheeksto show myface to theworld.

Keep your heart and soul free from anger.

Your God's given destiny can only become inevitable if you refuse to go against its manifestation with your frequent thoughts, decisions and actions.

I'm coming up with new music, I'm in the best shape of my life, I'm real sharp, my energy is strong. I look at it as: I'm just following the energy. That's how I sum that up.

No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.

Patience is that the heart does not feel anger towards that which is destined and that the mouth does not complain.

I shouldn't have been there. I should never have been born.

As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.

When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.