 At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family. |
| My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America. |
| I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion. |
| Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting. |
| My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you. |
| A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before. |
| Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity. |
| Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience. |
| I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed. |
| We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that. |
| My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything. |
| Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it. |
| The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act. |
| I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs. |
| All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art. |
| Freedom. It's not something you go out and die for. |
| Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting. |
| This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them. |
| It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all. |
| My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen. |
