I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.
I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.
What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
To be frank, I find religion rather offensive.
[My father] had a name for the bottom of the sky--'the hem of heaven.
I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have.
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't.
Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop.
It's the same misconception I used to have. I meet people and think they're millionaires and they're not.
I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal.
At big championships it's not the fastest person, it's the person who gets it right on the day.
I have been doing 120 miles a week, when normally I would do about 140.
If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
Why would heavy metal ever go away?
In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
