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 don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.
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.
My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.
