I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.

I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

Forest rangers see the forest differently. Likewise, entrepreneurs see the world differently.

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

I feel like a drummer with no sticks and somebody keeps farting on my snare drum.

When the woman is attractive, is it an interesting picture, or is it the woman? I had a lot of headaches with that, which was why it was interesting. I don't think I always got it straight.

I can't edit live as meticulously as I can for an album.

The cure to your self is that you are not yours.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

In the pulpit, I really feel like I'm in my sweet spot, I'm in my stride.

What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it into silk, or stories.

A man who trusts in luck better have plenty of it.