I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

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.

I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

New York is dead. It's too expensive.

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