I draw the line at some things. Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.

I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.

Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.

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.

There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band looked like, or even what sort of context the music was played in.