I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.

I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith.

I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.

Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.

If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.

How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.

History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.

I'm over dudes trying to look like they're in boy bands.

Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.

Life is better when we imagine it

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

Habit-forming products alleviate users' pain by relieving a pronounced itch.

When people say money doesn't matter, it sure as hell does when you're able to show your mother a beach house and then hand her the keys to it. That was one of the happiest moments of my life.