I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that.

I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something.

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'

I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I've grown to mistrust it because it has changed. I didn't bargain for digital access parking in some concrete structure. Real heaven for me was to drive somewhere and park right in front. Now the city is going vertical.

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.

There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see that.