I always think I don't do the first one good, so I try to do it more.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

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.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.