“At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.”

One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.

The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.

I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.

I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.

Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was

There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!

I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.

Fight the fighters, not their wars.

I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.

You can win the rat race but you’re still a rat.

I don’t believe in anything. I’m just here for the violence.

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer’s habit to remember nothing good of himself.

And whether these poor people would not fare far better if they were entrusted to the devils in Hell than they do at the hands of the devils of the New World who masquerade as Christians.

For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

Everybody loves a good Christmas song if you do it right.

A Clinical Study. Taking some time to read each night really taught me how to feign narcolepsy when my husband asked me what my “plan” was for taking down the Christmas tree.

I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Joseph and Mary did – Traveling arduously back to the place of your birth to be counted, with no guarantee of a bed when you get there.