I'm always on the look out for 'the good image'. I'm like The Borg (you know, Star Trek) inasmuch as I assimilate everything - but I like to think I'm working in the Pop Art tradition.

To me, NOTHING is 'new'.

I think there are still plenty of free-thinking creative people out there. There always will be.

In my moments of down time I tend to listen to Blues.

Young people are still experiencing the thrill of three chords and over-amplified guitars. They always will.

My encyclopedic knowledge of rock and roll is a millstone around my neck.

The internet has huge advantages but its downside is the easy access to resources.

It would be difficult to do art without music (music subsidises the art).

I still get a buzz from seeing young kids making music.

Everyone was always becoming someone else.Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old. How can aguy who’s about to turn seventeen feel old?

we said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows.

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.

If I were going to put my money on it, I would bet that by 2050—hopefully earlier—we’ll have found that more than 80 percent of all human cancer is caused by infection.

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.

You can create art and beauty with a computer.

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.