[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […].

People either hate me or dislike me - but I realized that people aren't against you, they are for themselves. We're all prejudiced in favor of oursel….

You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in t….

I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness….

There's a lot of noise about me that stops a lot of people from listening, but the good side is if you expose yourself like that, you're left with on….

I might be old, but I'm still desirable..

The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'..

To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book..

Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional..

I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman; half-Nazi, half-Liberace..

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone.

Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow..

A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike..

The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful..

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics..

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'..

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always….

It's better to be quotable than honest, I don't speak, I quote. I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I ….

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations..

I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator..

I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding t….