I have a great appreciation for body art.
With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.
The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.
I started getting tattoos, and the hair would grow back out and grow over a nice piece of artwork that I really wanted to show, and it just became one of those things. I can't stand the hair on my body. I just wanted it gone. It's just a better feeling for me.
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime.
I love tattoos.
Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.
I do a lot of work that's permanent. The drawings, the sculptures, they're permanent.
To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.
Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.
One of the things I love in life is art. That's one reason my entire body is covered in tattoos.
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
There's something magical about film, it's the ultimate for me, because it's kind of permanent - inasmuch as anything is. When I went to see Buster Keaton when I was about 14 and I came out of the cinema having really laughed at this film which had been made 50 years before, I thought: That's immortality. It's fantastic.
Music is a permanent art, it will always go through phases where you like it and are in tune with it, but saying that music "got bad" is infantile. The same is true with your life.
I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.
I'm addicted to tattoos. I can't stop; I love them.
For me, body art is all about expression; it's a lifestyle and can serve as a reminder that when my career is done, I'll have a story to tell on my body. And it will be my story of my life on my body.
They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.
Art's too long and life's too short.
The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
