In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.

Street skating, which is what I grew up with, is completely free of rules. You can do anything. When I see a skater go by, I think, What is this person going to do here? It's the same with people who write, who make music, who draw, who make movies. Creative people tend to have all of those different avenues in them.

Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.

In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.

Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

Effective fund-raising is based on relationships.