It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.

I never wanted to be with someone who just hung around the house.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

It seems whenever I've had a method or what I perceived to be an intellectual groundwork of some sort - a kind of game plan - it's always been the most morbid failure.

And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.