The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are.

When Allen Ginsberg was still alive, he was was an artist, but he was very local. He was just another wing-nut in the neighborhood and he was very accessible. You'd see him in Tompkins Square Park or in the local delicatessen, in one of the greasy spoon restaurants on First Avenue or a Chinese restaurant.

There's so much tragedy in people that we see every day that we don't have to make anything up. We don't have to invent anything. There are two items on the menu: comedy and tragedy.

Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

Everyone wants to be part of the 99%, even the cops are like, "No, no, man. I'm part of the 99% too." No one wants to be part of the 1%.

Americans didn't really have any experience with something as basic as "community."