Andy Warhol

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

My mother didn't love me. So what. My husband won't ball me. So what. I'm a success but I'm still alone. So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick.

Tina Turner was great. I thought she was copying Mick Jagger then somebody told me she taught him how to dance.

I missed having her around, but I told myself that it was probably a good thing that he was taking better care of her now, because maybe he knew how to do it better than we had.

I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take that money, tie it up, and hang it on the wall. Then when someone visited you the first thing they would see is money on the wall.

But to become a famous artist you had to do something that was 'different'. And if it was 'different', then it means you took a risk, because the critics could have said that it was bad instead of good… They always say new art is bad for a while, that's the risk – that's the pain you have to have for fame.

But being famous isn't all that important. If I weren't famous, I wouldn't have been shot for being Andy Warhol. Maybe I would have been shot for being in the army, or maybe I would be a fat school teacher. How do you ever know.

Went to Studio 54 where there was a birthday party for the black star on Saturday Night Live who's just signed to do a movie with Paramount. Eddie Murphy.

I remembered I had tickets that Susan Blond gave me to the rock kid who ate the heads off bats, Ozzy Osbourne,...

Catherine Guinness [...] didn't get heavy until the last day, when she started with that annoying thing the English do of asking and asking: 'What exactly is Pop Art?' It was like when we interviewed that blues kid, Albert King, for Interview, and she asked him: 'What exactly is soul?'

I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American.

Donald Trump… cheap… a butch guy.

I think everybody should be nice to everybody.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

They always say new art is bad for a while, that's the risk – that's the pain you have to have for fame.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.

Everybody must have a fantasy.

I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece. I don't even taste any of the other pieces, I just want to finish and throw the box away and not to have it on my mind any more. I would rather either have it now or know I'll never have it so I don't have to think about it.

Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.