Quotes About Taste

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.

If you rocking Steve Madden, we won't go anywhere.

I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.

In terms of brands, Jovani is one of my favorites, and also Zhivago, and I love Steve Madden shoes.

If you stick around long enough, you're going to become fashionable eventually.

You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.

There is no right way to go on an edible journey. You can never tell what is going to be great, so you have to try everything. If you become doctrinaire about sticking to lowbrow foods or epicurean delights, your just being an extremist, and it won't do you any good.

People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.

It's still my happiest time when I'm eating.

I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.

I like to listen to the Police, Sting, Queen, Pet Shop Boys.

I love stone crabs. And I love popcorn.

I like the Beatles very much, and there are certain things about the Stones that I like.

Everybody is always raving about the Rolling Stones, saying, 'The Stones this, and the Stones that.' I've never cared for the Stones. They never had anything to offer me musically, especially in the drumming department.

Instead of the Beatles and the Stones, my mum and dad were listening to Michael Jackson, Barry White.

A lot of things that should not be written were written without checking with me, things that were not in good taste. That hurt me. That is why I stopped talking to the press. Because they didn't want to ask me. They just wanted to write what they felt like.

That's a problem I have a lot of the time with humor in music, where it just kind of stops at the obvious level of: 'Hey, isn't it something that's in bad taste?'

Designing wasn't something that I was always into, but I wasn't able to find clothes that I wanted to wear. I wanted to be able to walk into any store and have an idea of what I want and go and get it.

But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.

I don't care how much it costs or who it's by as long as it fits me. I love shopping, but I go to the same stores I've always gone to: Guess, Bebe, Coach. I can't really skip out of that realm.