I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

Its hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.

There are people in this world so rich that when it rains they simply fly away on private jets in search of sun.

Who doesn't like money? I love money. Why not. My subject matter will change when I get to that point.

I'm scared of slipping up, of just doing a joke that makes me laugh.

Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?

The facts are facts and records are records.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.