If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it t….

I had always taken photos - always, always taken photos, made movies..

I shoot in black and white, sometimes color, sometimes if it looks good I shoot out the window of the airplanes or whatever, anything that - sometime….

I went to Our Lady of Mercy, parochial school and I started Fordham Prep, but that only lasted about a year and then I - to me, it was like going to ….

I was a guest at CalArts. John Baldessari invited me out a few times. I've been there. I've been in Pasadena, taught out at Boulder, University of Co….

How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know..

The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me..

Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really..

You can't have silence on the radio; people will turn away from the station..

I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done..

I am always producing work, but there is always a sort of deadline where you have to finish work. I don't do it for a show. In other words, I am not ….

ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it..

The words represent ideas first of all. That is something you have to understand. I mean, it is not just an object, but it is an object with a histor….

I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate..

I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art hi….

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece..

I was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but I decided I was going to be an artist bu….

I wanted my style to be very recognizable..

I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really..

I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me..

The only problems I sometimes have is if I ask for a piece for a group show, if I ask for a piece - I would like to put it into a show, sometimes the….