In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.

Merce is my favorite artist in any field.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

I am not strong on perfection.

I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.

There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.