The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.

The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.

I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.

We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it.

He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.