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

I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you can beat him up ..."

My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to know." You can't put limits on those pieces. You can't be there all of the time when they're installed.

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

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!