People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

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.

I always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see. I think about all the people before eyeglasses were invented. It must have been weird because everyone was seeing in different ways according to how bad their eyes were. Now, eyeglasses standardize everyone's vision to 20-20. That's an example of everyone becoming more alike. Everyone could be seeing at different levels if it weren't for glasses.

The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is

Everything is more glamorous when you do it in bed anyway.

I want to die with my blue jeans on.

If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.