Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.

I hope what I do has an art to it and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

I would hope they would be our fellow artists rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

The house has to please everyone contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

Our culture now wonderfully alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

As musicians and artists it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment I really mean the industry that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.