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.

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

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

Of course, the '60s was a study in decadence. Everything just got worse and worse, and at the end of the '60s, everything was so horrible that people were killing each other.

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."

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.

Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.