Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

New York is dead. It's too expensive.

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 never stopped doing what I did as a child.

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

The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?

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