I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.

I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to the body - the patterns and stripes and all of that.

I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.

I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women.

When you're looking through a magazine, what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative that is going on inside of it. Those are the ones I make into paintings.

I'm interested in the sheer fascination of beauty - beauty is fascinating.

I go everywhere by boat. I don't fly. It makes me feel really immobile but great.

I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.

I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.

Children get used to the thought of their fate depends on powerful parents deciding everything in their life

I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

I don't care what the New York Times says about me, and no one I care about cares what the New York Times says about me.

I have more faith in my bra than I have in my accountant.

Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.

Retain a calm heart, sit like a turtle, walk swiftly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

Didn't vet Bernard Kerik sufficiently for DHS recommendation.

Music should be poor. Music should be with out air conditioning. That's just the way it is.