The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

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.

My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, and practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.

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

I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American.