The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

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.

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

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.