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.

I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get too close; I don't like to touch things.

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

I've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night... they'd just take about 500 people a night. Everybody would just love this country because it's so thrilling to go there. It really is.

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.

If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for our own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy.