It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

Banks wont even loan each other money, everybody's going broke, and here we are inside here, these people are going to be out on the street selling apples and pencils and they're still going to be buying paintings for this money, so I don't know what's going on in this world.

Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.

I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography were all part of being an artist. I have made my money that way. And I have had some fun. It's not been a bad life.

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

For most of my life, I wasn't on the Left.