Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.