Dave Hickey

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.

Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.

I don't like to get in front of people.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

When I see something that I think isn't right, I think I have some kind of, for right or wrong, an obligation to fix it.