You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.

You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.