The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced.

I think video is the best market. When the cassette market comes out, if you just do movies that nobody else can do, that'll be the new way.

I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

Security breeds stagnation.

Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.

I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but you just never feel clean, and it's degenerate, anyway, to wear animal skins.... So I went back to bluejeans after my degenerate period.