Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices.

I have a friend who says a beautiful painting can cure headaches, but I want it to cure a little bit more! I want it to cure the society of voting for Donald Trump.

Everything you do on Earth is political.

I have my moods, but I can always see something beautiful.

Art is the most important way of recording history.

To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.

Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up.

But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded as the night progressed.

It’s chaos out there, and chaos is what we need.

I have never seen a heavyweight champion apologize for a knockout

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

Visualize a sphere, a dome of red energy surrounding you. Feel that you are consciously directing energy from the center of your body, in the area of your naval.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

We live at a very special time . . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!

People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.