I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around.

Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.

I had my freedom and that was nice.

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.

I never really separated painting and literature.

I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

I would’ve liked to have been Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time.

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.

Perception is reality to the one in the experience.

This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.

Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.

I'm a believer that satellite radio, whether I'm on it or not, will take off.

Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.

Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what's really important.

In a world where every man and his dog is a designer, Alexander McQueen was the real deal. His talent was supersonic.

Great for good, or great for evil.

You must make the product interesting, not just make the ad different.

We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.