It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.
What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.
I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.
I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.
The Stones were more dangerous than other bands of the Sixties. It looked like they had more fun than the Beatles - like they stayed up later.
So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.
It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.
I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.
The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.
The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.
The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say.
Video just accesses international information so much more readily.
I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any expectations, and you’re not trying to get somewhere in particular.
I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.
It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.
It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
