...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.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

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.

Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that I don't know what I'm doing but-I think if you're able to follow your instincts, then that's knowing what you're doing.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

Another Elvis will not come along. He got wasted, but it's alright.