The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They’re wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there’s a consistency that...

I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don’t write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.

Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.