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.
Medicine men live in caves.
I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.
If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.
My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.
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 wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
I was a cute kid.
Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all.
I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.
I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.
My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.
