I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

I got a little studio in Chicago and practiced. I realized I had to earn some money. So I went to work for an advertising agency where my job was mostly drawing insects for a company that sold an insecticide spray.

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

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

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

There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.

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.