I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it.

If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.