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.

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

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.

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 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?"

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.

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