In Europe, There Is So

This Country, And The West Coast, Especially, Is Bad At Preserving Any Cultural Legacy.

Sometimes You Spend Nine Months, 10 Months, A Year Writing A Piece That You Will Hear Two Years Later Or Something Like That, And You Never See Anybody. It's A Very Different Sort Of Metabolic.

When An Artist Works Today Or Whenever, It's Not About Creating Immortal Masterpieces, Because That's The One Thing We Don't Decide Ourselves.

Of Course, If You Think Of A European Or American Household In The '50s, So What Were The Things That When People Started Climbing Up The Ladder, What Did They Buy? A Fridge, A Tv, I Think Piano Was The Number Three Item In Say '53 Or '54.

Coming From A Sort Of Very Rigid European Type Of Training To This Culture Which Is Just A Little More Open - A Lot More Open, And Kind Of Curious, And Asking Different Sorts Of Questions.because The Problem For Me Was That The European Modernist Movement In The '70s Was All About Right Or Wrong. Some Things Were Right And You Were Dealing With The Truth, As It Were, And Then Some Things Were Wrong And Therefore Not Allowed.