My work doesn't have the same rules as, say, Andy [Warhol]'s work. But it's gathered together for the simple reason that we all worked with the images and objects around us.

Of course, the '60s was a study in decadence. Everything just got worse and worse, and at the end of the '60s, everything was so horrible that people were killing each other.

The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.

It was easy to get a job at the Cedar Bar because people came and went, but I didn't like the atmosphere. Instead, I got a job at Cooper Union Library. I stayed at Cooper Union for seven years; it was my salvation. While I worked there, I also read books of every kind.

I was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all commerce.

The thing about the ray gun is, you pick up anything you see on the street that's the shape of a gun.