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

My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.

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.

I knew I had to take my ambition more seriously, so I enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in the fall, I went on a tour of my own. I didn't go to New York because that was too well known for its art scene.

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

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

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