I had very few friends. There was nobody I could trust. I left home when I was fifteen. I lived in Washington Square Park.

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all.

For a while, I was drawing on good paper, but now I've gone back to the bad stuff. I put matte medium on it. If you put matte medium on it, it seals up, so it doesn't really matter.

I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.

My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.

I was a cute kid.

Medicine men live in caves.

I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.

Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood.