To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries or travel to exotic lands to arrive at a view of our modern situation refracted through the lens of the preindustrial world, or the uncommercialized, unfranchised, perhaps unsanitized-and therefore supposedly more "authentic"-perspective ofthe Third World. Very simply, this is because that "other" world, as alien as if separated by centuries in time, is the one from which I came

I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.

I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.