A bike is the world's most used form of transportation

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

I've changed my music from time to time so I'm hoping that I can completely change my life from time to time, too. Like live in another land, in another place, and just get completely soaked up in another way of being. Could be in this country or another country, somewhere were you can be reborn a number of times not just creatively, but personally as well. I guess I want to go through life as more than one person.

When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found.

...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting good anymore? Painting subverts this subversion of its traditional nature by redefining itself - art is idea, not simply skillful execution. So, a work can be crudely made, or even machine made - but it has to be practically and functionally useless.