I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to.

Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to.

The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith.

I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.

I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.

I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models.

I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

They say never trust a skinny chef, but the fact is, to stay healthy when you're a chef means you have to work twice as hard.

I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored.

As a general rule, if you are prone to melodramatic meltdowns, please avoid purchasing a webcam for any reason.

I know all I really wanna do is get money and take care of my family.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.

The joy of the Lord is your strength.

As an actor, you're always changing.

I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

I've been offered a peerage already, and turned it down.

Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is going to get lost in the process.

Silicon Valley has been a technology capital like New York is a financial capital.

Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.

Hope is a good thing, maybe even the best of things, and good things never die.

Next to power without honor the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic.

My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?

It's wrong that members of Congress can purchase luxury airfare with taxpayer money when many families in my district and across the county are struggling to make ends meet.

I'm just a Chicago actor who's a playwright. Even with the success of 'August,' the people in town who come to our theater know me by sight, because they've seen me onstage so much.

Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I was only one of them.

Standup comedy is inordinately difficult. If doing something else for a living will make you equally happy, choose that instead. I'm serious. Comedy is punishing.