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 had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.

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

I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette. . . I am for an art that flutters like a flag.

All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.

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