"There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art."

"Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow."

"Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up."

"By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent."

"My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world."

"Wisdom principle 95 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 15."

"It is not a fragrant world."