I have a transgressive spirit, and Pop is transgression's best friend.

All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them.

Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public already knows, you're dealing with Pop.

Sometimes people are shocked by what I do, but I'm not trying to be liked, I speak my mind and I don't care what people think. I truly do not compromise on who I am.

I'm like a circus standing on two legs.

I love the idea of reincarnation, so just in case it doesn't exist, I decided to be different people in the same lifetime.

I'm a Baroque person. More than Baroque, I'm a Rococo person. I don't draw straight lines.

For me, every week is a fashion week.

My childhood was a drag show!

France, stop throwing awards at me! I have so many already, give them to people who need them.

A red nose is the clown's mask and my moustache is mine.

Know who you are, what your potential is and press towards it with all that you have within you

Conception is a blessed event. Fertilization is divine intervention.The development of embryo is a miraculous encounter. The birth of a child is supernatural spiritual event.

I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and that if I had to make a living from it there would be too much pressure.

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

You are your own superstar, and only you can shape the movie that you make.

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.

I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.