Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all.
I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.
No one is famous when they wake up in the morning, so it's nice seeing people in moments when they're just being themselves.
The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.
I don't really think about my future. I don't really worry about anything. I just try not to spend all my money.
The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.
So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.
Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order to engage in some public war with someone? No.
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.
For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.
I guess I've always been quite interested in the Situationists' ideas about urbanism and spectacle and how we move through life.
I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again.
My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.
