“I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life...” — John Baldessari Quote

“I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I'm not trying to denigrate anybody.”

“That word 'funny' always makes me feel uncomfortable. Because if I were trying to be funny, I would be something like Bill Wegman - he really tries to be funny. I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter, and I'm sort of reporting.”

“I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.”

“I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been reading them all my life, and I think that I would like to write a critical book that might have some of those how-to elements in it.”

“I've had an angel on my shoulder all my life.”

“I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.”