I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.

I always knew America was all about guns. You go to the movies as a kid, everybody's got a gun.

You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.

Judson Church was a very important place because they believed in art. They also took care of drug addicts. Without the Judson, nothing could have happened.

The end of the '60s was a terrible time. I was in Los Angeles then, and I remember the night someone ran into the studio and told us about the Manson murders. Then suddenly something happened, the '60s disappeared. The '70s were completely different.

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.