If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
I've always been very tied to language.
Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.
I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.
