So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.

I think a pretty good modus operandi is to believe that everything we know is wrong. The stomach will be the key to depression or consciousness or we'll realize ants are smarter than people.

There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.

We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

I think maybe it's my personality. People don't like my face.

New York exists for me. Not me for it.

It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.