You're like a turd that won't flush..

The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad..

I made a picture called Super Mario Bros., and my six-year-old son at the time - he's now 18 - he said, 'Dad I think you're probably a pretty good ac….

I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people..

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation..

People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear..

There are moments that I`ve had some real brilliance, you know. But I think they are moments. And sometimes, in a career, moments are enough..

The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in..

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting..

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me..

Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next ….

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel..

Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country..

I've been sober now for 18 years. With all the drugs, psychedelics and narcotics I did, I was [really] an alcoholic. Honestly, I only used to do coca….

I think not being a professional photographer was actually a blessing, because it allowed me to shoot things professional photographers wouldn't shoo….

Jimmy [Dean] was the most talented and original actor I ever saw work. He was also a guerrilla artist who attacked all restrictions on his sensibilit….

In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning..

When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!.

I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography were ….

I should have been dead ten times over. I've thought about that a lot. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle that I'm still around..

You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle o….