I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance.

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.

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

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?"

I had, over the years, collected things, small things, as people do, and I had put them all together and showed them in what became a building in the form of the Geometric Mouse.

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.