Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!

The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success

Don't kill the golden goose.

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.

Try managing a junkie - especially if you've never been one yourself.

What are the politics of boredom?

Whenever we suffer — no matter what the severity of our suffering is — we have the ability to find meaning in the situation.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

I believe every single person on this planet is a dreamer but you have to make a vigorous effort to make it in life.

Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.

The girls are beautiful in Hollywood - and enough silicon to caulk a sink.

Giving up is not an option if we want to prevent irreparable harm to our planet.

My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

In terms of the emotional underpinning, if you've been in relationships, you understand what's happening.

Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy