Above all, the photographs I use are not arty in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as fine art; its only place is in the commercial ….

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have….

As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work..

I think the most interesting stuff comes from people who've just got nothing to lose. You know, let's kamikaze this thing - just throw themselves in ….

When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's ….

Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York..

Most artists are doing basically the same thing - staying off the streets..

Yes, there's a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and, for me, when it disorients, it's got….

I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as thou….

Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving. Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I set out to just take a leisurely drive, it's blue s….

Nothing's changed except the dates on the newspapers. I'm in my same skin thinking the same old thoughts. The difference between psychedelia and digi….

My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like a collection of Ready-mades..

When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase..

I never expected to sell my art. It wasn't like today where you come out of art school and they promise you a future. Now it's almost regulated in a ….

I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology..

People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland..

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery..

The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life..

I believe in intuition and approaching things as instant gratification. Just do the things you want to do, make the kind of pictures you want to make..

I travel a lot, but I don't come away with new inspiration..

Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people..