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

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

They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn't - the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, "Why don't you show the other stuff?" I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition.

The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.

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.

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.