Dave Hickey

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

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

I'm retiring because my time is up.

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

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.

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.