People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.

As I was walking down the stairs, I kept thinking that the room felt like a movie theater with all your attention on this wall, so it seemed like a big challenge.

Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.

The Internet has a lot of solutions. I found an insane way to trap chipmunks - it was too crazy not to try.

To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.

I'm always looking at the computer. I make all of my work on the computer at some point or another. Almost all of the paintings come from a file.

Well, art has to be sexy.

When I was younger and was working as a Dia guard I would go to see everything. I went to every opening. I was really interested in seeing and learning as much as I could.

I was really naïve. I had no idea artists made money.

I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.

I think as a student I ended up liking so many different and conflicting things.

Life without love is a cold branch of a non-grounded tree.

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

Hollywood's a business, and until someone puts their finger on you and decides you're the guy who's going to carry that movie, it's not going to happen.

Now that I have seen I am responsible, faith without deeds is dead.

When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

Establish a place of work where engineers can feel the joy of technological innovation, be aware of their mission to society and work to their heart's content.

I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.