Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.

I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.

You basically only discover a new thing once.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

I think it's bad for human beings to be artists. It's awful. You want to do something but you're constantly trying to decide what you want to do. Let's just say it's no place like Hawaii.

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.

Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.

I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.

Be thankful always.

Man's meanness is a fuse in search of a flame.

There's so much to learn and so much of it not worth learning.

People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon.

If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.

Facebook wasn't built out of a Harvard dorm window.

Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.

Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.

As soon as an actor has faith in a director, he just goes with it.

I think we need to prepare for the worst, and so I support energy efficiency measures.