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

Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject.

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

I am an immigrant in a sense. What happened was that my father was stationed in New York when my mother became pregnant, and she said, "I've got to go to Sweden so this child can be born there, because you don't have any idea where you're going to be transferred next."

Andy [Warhol] was on the scene, but he wasn't an artist at first; he was more an illustrator. He was always surrounded by about ten people who worshipped him. He'd go to a party and they would all come along. But he was drawing shoes and that sort of thing.

I like food because you can change it. I mean, there is no such thing as a perfect lamb chop; you can make all types of lamb chops. And that's true of everything. And people eat it and it changes and disappears.

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