Things are forgotten so fast today. Even if 1,000 people are slaughtered, the next day you forget. There has to be new news every day.

I'd love to be considered a post-pop artist, but I love to have five or six different styles in every painting, just for the pleasure of the eye.

I have been very lucky, I have won prizes and I've even won the lottery.

In the exhibition at Galerie Perrotin, they have the Sarajevo painting - I think it's very good to nail down this story of Pol Pot and other people, not all dictators but most of them.

Every five, six, seven, eight, 10 years I do a raisonné. When it's printed in the book, it's finished.

I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.

I lived on Fulton Street in an enormous studio - I needed a bicycle to get to the toilet, about half a mile between two streets - next to Wall Street.

I have very warm memories about New York, about the old times, mostly the '60s.

If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond.

If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous.

Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.

I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, economics and creative genius.

I don't like my books being defined by their "about"-ness. So now the subtitle has just become a kind of strap-line on the cover.

You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.

There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself.

First and foremost, we have to focus on what we're doing and not worry about what Bayern - or any other clubs - are doing.