I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.