We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

The lyrics just come out, and I don't know where from. I'm an incredible failure in relationships. I think there's a romantic ideal that I'm aspiring for. I don't know. The lyrics are always about unsuccessful relationships. They're not all about the love between a man and a woman. It's about friendship and family. Deep down there's a lot of talk about general existence.

In my mind, when God made women, he did an amazing job. I think girls are just perfect.

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and is refining the laws of painting. But who cares about painting? What we care about is that the planet is heating up, species are disappearing, there's war, and there are beautiful girls here in Brooklyn on the avenue and there's food and flowers.