My first reaction at the very idea of this interview was to refuse to talk about photography. Why dissect and comment a process that is essentially a….

The idea of making a fault a subject of study and not an object to be merely determined has been the most important step in the course of my methods ….

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time..

Writers get to know me very well. It always serves me in the end because I feel I have a deeper understanding of the character and sometimes they rea….

No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America..

I think something happens with age. And I find this really a lot in what I read from certain art critics: For people who are all about change-people ….

The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being said by someone in a bus. ….

I'm very fortunate in that all the mediums I work in are extremely collaborative. Movies are probably the most solitary on a day to day basis, but ev….

A basic is an introduction. A fundamental is a foundation. A fundamental is a premise, idea, or fact that an entire system arises from and is based o….

Scary rock n' roll bands had all the devilish imagery. But at the same time, it's not because they were devil worshippers, they were saying that soci….

I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle, and sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations..

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really al….

Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table and I was so intimidated by these titans that I wa….

If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there go….

I knew I wanted to do something that wasn't just domestic and endless but I had no idea what and no inkling that it could ever be music..

At no time will we be more Christlike than when we are a friend..

When I'm playing music I'm usually not thinking of surfing, just because I'm usually thinking about the chords and the lyrics, and sometimes that mes….

A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path ….

I've been right more than I've been wrong..

It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts..

I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power..