“My parents wanted me to study medicine, but instead I went to Pratt.”

“We had Bridget in a very good public school in Tribeca, but she was lopsidedly artistic from the very beginning.”

“To smoke cigars is now politically incorrect—I like that idea.”

“I wear a lot of flowers in my hair. These orchids are pretty and feminine and perfect for the summer.”

“I was always told that because I was born in the nineties, I couldn’t appreciate Michael Jackson—but I really did! I bought all I could, and I tried dancing like him for a while. I was horrible.”

“I’ve written about 3,000 pages, so either it’s more than one book or it needs a lot of editing. I’m in a race with Proust.”

“My daughter tells me, ‘She’s not my sister, she’s a bird.’ But I think in fact there’s jealousy there.”

A cross section of the crowd outside the immensely popular Gagosian show.

“I’m an extreme bohemian. I barter for room and board with my roommate.”

“It’s kind of like a classical look, harking back to the seventies, when men were allowed to have hair on their face and bodies.”