And yes, there are things I want to keep, that I like around me - especially when there's very little left. I just want to keep those little bits of reminders of my past. There are certain drawings from the '60s; certain little paintings from the '60s that I keep.

Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem.

The big thing is I try not to repeat.

Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.

There's a kind of poetic aspect to inert gas. And remember, first of all, they were completely unknown a hundred years earlier. We just didn't know about them. And then when they were discovered in the atmosphere, the idea that this is a material that would breathe in and exhale and becomes part of us for a while made it even more intriguing. The names, the Greek names, are interesting, too - if you translate neon, xenon and so forth are kind of interesting.

I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.

Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.