I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons. It's really something. These guys were great masters and of course the use of space.

I just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I just do it.

I was also very interested in music. I used to hang out in jazz joints, you know, the Five Spot and so forth when I was, you know, a senior, really, when I was a little bit older. And I thought, well, maybe I could, you know, work with music. I can't play at all.

You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.

I consider drawings finished works of art, first of all. However, the ideas can be something that can be developed into something larger. I don't make so many drawings anymore since I'm working with language. I used to make more when I worked with sculptural things, especially the wire pieces.

I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

I'm not a person - and my wife also - we don't really go to the beach or anything like that. We go to cities.