I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.

You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty thousand people in public relations. And a dwindling number of actual reporters and journalists.

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.

They can buy talent. You can't buy it for yourself, but you can buy other people's talent to serve your purposes. And once an artist does that, he becomes like a plaything of the rich.