It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.
I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.
I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus
My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.
If you want reality take the bus.
As an artist you have a choice. You can add more confusion and darkness to the world or you can shine a light, make a beauty.
I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.
. . . most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.
Unlike many Sixties rockers,[Bob] Dylan sang about getting old, about broken dreams. His return to roots music pointed the way for many of his contemporaries to forsake trying to sound 'current' and to instead make music that would stand the test of time.
How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?
I like to go to the races at Hollywood Park, but I don't usually win with the horses, so afterward I go to Auntie Em's and drown my sorrows in a red velvet cupcake. It never fails me.