Social media could be very strong in terms of bringing people together but it also takes up so much of people's time that I wonder if we've lost the ability to daydream.

Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God.

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

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

I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.

With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with.