James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.

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.

One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love

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

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. People are only glamorous if you don't see them. Like the movies used to make people years ago. There is something about people on screen that makes them so special; when you see them in person, they are so different and the whole illusion is gone.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.