You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.

[Ruling over everyone in the rich folks' enclave is the sinister Kaufman, amusingly played by Dennis Hopper: part CEO, part unelected president. He gets the best line in the film when a frowning apparatchik asks if there is any trouble.] In a world where the dead have returned to life, ... the word 'trouble' loses much of its meaning.

I voted for Bush, and I don't have anything to disapprove of.

You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body... my liver... okay, my brain... went.

I live in a city that is billboards. Billboards and graffiti.