I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the state of public education in America today.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

I can't think of another enterprise other than being a homeowner that can't have its debt restructured in bankruptcy. Corporations can but a homeowner can't? Now with securitization the homeowner can't go to the owner of the loan and work things out.

I'd rather be respected than loved.

I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.

Who you spend your life with-much more so than how you choose to spend it-is the most important decision you can make. Do it right. That's the best advice I can give you.