I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.

Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.

Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue

The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today.

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.

Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions, you're never going to be much of a collector anyway.

I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.

Because our agriculture is so spread out, that makes it vulnerable. Our food gets transported a number of times and very widely.

I'm very down-to-earth. I think I'm still 'street'.

im am who i am i can't change

I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice.

The marathon is an art; the marathoner is an artist.

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.

I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.

I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are always really fun, and, I think, funny.