The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.

During the '60s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. I think that once you see emotions from a certain angle you can never think of them as real again. That's what more or less has happened to me. I don't really know if I was ever capable of love, but after the '60s I never thought in terms of 'love' again.

I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.

If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today.

The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.

The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.

So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.