Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

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.

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

Remember, they've never seen you before in their life.

Some people look 40 when they're 40. People look the way they're supposed to look at any age.

If you're traveling for five years or something like that, you're going somewhere. But five years are being used up, and you don't have to do anything. You just sit on the plane. That might make time go really fast.