"I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles."

“The combination of an individual[i.e., a client] with a positive idea of living and a good designer is the great force in contemporary decoration. I don't care how good the designer is, I am sure that he [or she] would rahter have a person with definite ideas rahter than have to work with a negative figure as a client.”

“I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear.”

Source : "Naoto Kan, Ex-Prime Minister: Japan Was Unprepared For Fukushima Nuclear Crisis", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2012.

“They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.”

“I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively effortless song to write, which is rare for me.”

Source : Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.

“Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.”

“I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

“In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.”

“Im sick and tired of politicians beating up on the IRS. We have the best and fairest tax-collection system in the world.”