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

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.

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.

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.

Oh! let me love forever. Let me die in love. Life is valueless dust if love touched you never.

Failure is information encased in a shell of pain.

I am not afraid of the dark. And you shouldn't be either.

. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

I can't work in a sewer. I come from California.

My face is on bubblegum wrappers now!

Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.

A purpose is the eternal condition of success.