I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

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.

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.

You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

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

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.