When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.

If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am.

Nihilism is best done by professionals.

When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.

At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

I never say never about anything.

I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.