This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.

A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.

New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.

My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life is unpredictable

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.