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The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat.

We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.

I think the job of artists is to stir things up.