I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.

Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink.

So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.

I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government, it's sometimes looked at as unpatriotic. It's not.

It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)