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

People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.

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

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

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.

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.

When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.