The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

It's almost a social grace to get into the art world, and I'm very wary of it. Art was good in Berlin in the late '70s - there was a lot more guts to art when the Neo-Expressionists were starting up; it was real slapdash; it has real heart to it - but it seems so cold and heartless in America. It's a buyer's market.

I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.

Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.

You go through stages where you wonder whether you are Christ, or just looking for him.

You can begin really looking for a relationship . . . when you can (appreciate) the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.

It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.