Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.

I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.

Your best work is your expression of yourself.

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.

In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening.

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.