Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.

I'm retiring because my time is up.

I think that if you don't like something and it's not easy, you shouldn't be doing it.

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.

Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.

Most famous artists are created by their work and the idea of them as a character, and if they're smart and ambitious, they reinforce that character because they want to win. They want their views to prevail.