I think the power of image is in mystery - I endlessly create mysteries, by way of this dystopian message, to initiate intrigue.

It's amazing how if you turn up at a studio without an idea, a picture will take itself from momentum, and you quickly can lose control.

I'm always working in this universe - whether picturing hamburger joints, Virgin Marys, domestic scenes - using these "vacant-faced" women as a medium to question universal truths.

Having a book is actually like a great master - helping to build a universe and unify work - especially in my pictures where there is such a strong signature, yet with a set of rigorous rules to it.

I'll always remember Jean Paul Gaultier, who did a project based on Madonnas, remarking on the images, "Yours are much better." Gaultier is really smart, so it's good getting a compliment from him!

In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.

Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.

My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.

CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it

I don't think it's entirely paranoid to suspect that one day, you won't be able to so much as question the primary tenets of anti-racism without going to jail.

Unity in diversity is India's strength. There is simplicity in every Indian. There is unity in every corner of India. This is our strength.

To the Green movement in which infantilism is seen at its worst, authority is a far more serious evil than the destruction of life.

Never invest in anything that cannot be illustrated with a crayon

I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.