I travel a lot, but I don't come away with new inspiration.

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'

I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object.

When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.

Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving. Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I set out to just take a leisurely drive, it's blue skies and puffy clouds and time.

People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like a collection of Ready-mades.

I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.

Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.

I'd rather someone be honest and tell me something that I didn't want to hear, rather than dishonest and tell me something I want to hear.

You can have the love you want, if you can afford its price tag. For every love has its price, monetary or non-monetary.

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.

But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.

If you try to over-control what you think you will achieve, you'll miss what you can actually accomplish.

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

We are not significant on the cosmic scale.

He was my best friend. I would always love him, and it would never, ever be enough.