When I'm inspired, I jot things down and put them in a pile.

Sometimes I have compared myself with a scientist or something: when you discover something and you don't expect the whole world to understand it. I always thought I was doing that kind of activity, in art and in music too.

My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.

The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.

You can't dance if you got too much muck in your head.

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.