I was always used to being CENTRE STAGE - SOMETHING that had its good and BAD points.

Rather like BATMAN, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, COURAGE and compassion and a SENSE of RIGHT and wrong, good and bad and justice.

Watching President Obama, for the first time in my life, one of us was running for president. He seemed like one of us - and I GOT behind him, and I got excited about his message and what he continues to say he's GOING to do. The day he was ELECTED president, Prop 8 happened. It was this bizarre dichotomy - world HISTORY - GOOD and bad.

The Deep South has a completely different HISTORY, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes PEOPLE work together who usually don't, and that SOUNDS like a CLICHE in so many ways, but it ACTUALLY happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.

I was very famous as a young MAN and I celebrated both the GOOD and BAD TIMES with DRINKING.

Today we're just growing and consuming, and I THINK MAYBE there's a sadness in that. People are longing for a time when there was a BLACK and white and GOOD and BAD.

I don't ENGAGE in social MEDIA, which has its good and bad sides, I guess - but the good side is when PEOPLE HATE my guts, I'm kind of oblivious to it.

Whatever you are INSIDE, the good and bad will manifest in the outside world. It will come out in some WAY. It will come out in your WORK. It will come out in words. It will come out.

There were GOOD and BAD times, but through all of the times I just kept working, and kept being in the GYM, and kept BELIEVING in myself. And it all paid off.

I THINK that as television is evolving, the line between TV and FILM is becoming more and more blurred. This is both a good and BAD thing.

'Saw' was good and bad. It was good in that it gave me a career START, but it was ALSO negative in that it really marginalized me as a filmmaker.

When I stopped DRINKING... there were so MANY things I had to FACE that I didn't EVEN realize were part of my makeup before. When you do that and have any CHANGES that severe, you lose a lot of things, both good and bad.

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through REGULAR life and I live and I EXPERIENCE different THINGS, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with WHATEVER's going on while I'm going through it.

I don't like the terms 'positive' or 'negative,' as I think every person has good and bad in them. It's HIGH TIME that we EXPLORE all these SIDES on TELEVISION as humans.

John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four DECADES making laconic, IRONIC CONCEPTUAL art-about-art, both GOOD and bad.