I want to be a machine.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, 'The last truth is that there is no magic.

Self-worth and net worth are not the same.

My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness.

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

I decided that I did not want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because these also exerted a kind of pressure, and obstructed absolute creative freedom.

This is a way you can learn about someone through very stressful situations. That is when a person is either gonna shine or falter.

We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

The four words that will define this century: The Earth is full.

There is more to literacy than 'reading' and 'writing'.

I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.