I was always interested in drawing. As a child, I started my own country, which was called Neubern. It was located in the South Atlantic. I did the documentation of Neubern in great detail. I drew everything that was there, all the houses and all the cars and all the people. We even had a navy and an air force. I spent a lot of time drawing.

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

I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.

I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.

The sexual is part of everything, and it's highly formalized. I hadn't done figure for a long time. And I thought to myself, "Why not the erotic figure?"

The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.

My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.