Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.

I feel that every professional is the art school for the next guy. I feel that maybe a lot of the dynamism in my own work, having been felt by the rest of the artists, they'll react to it and put elements of that in their own work, feeling that it'll help it.

Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.

My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent.

I'm OMAC! Evacuate this section! I'm going to destroy it!

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.