...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.

I love writing. I don't claim to be great at it. Occasionally I get a good sentence off. But I love the activity.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

We don't make music, it makes us

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.