I don't know why, but I always feel a kind of necessity to write things that are beyond acceptance, that are too offensive or something. For people to read them and say, Ha-ha-ha, very funny. No, we can't print that.

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.

Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.

Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.

Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything.