I don’t really mean what I’m saying.

We are who people think we are.

Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio

This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.

Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will

An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends, and there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.