“Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public already knows, you're dealing with Pop.”

“The first rule on breaking a rule is to know everything about the rule.”

“I'm a Joker. Dangerous and silly at the same time.”

“My only career goal is to be an halloween icon.”

“What I wear on and off stage is my mask. You see, a mask doesn't hide you, it exposes you.”

“Nothing I do is natural, realistic, organic or accidental. I'm never spontaneous, I'm completely premeditated.”

“I love to laugh. Specially at myself. Sometimes I spend hours doing it.”

“I have a tendency to break rules and shake things up. I would say that with me people never know what is real and what is fiction. And I like that because reality is relative.”

“The greatest thing about our times is that you don't need permission to express yourself the way you wish. Sometimes people tell themselves they can't do it, because they're missing this or that, but historically, specialization is a recent convention. Most of us are born natural polymaths.”

“Fascinated by the great symbols of the collective history, I use them as an alphabet to communicate.”

“Realism is criminal.”