I Don't Want To Take Somebody Else's

I Was An Artist, But Not A Self-proclaimed Great Artist, Just A Common Man Who Was Working In A Form Of Art Which Is Universal.

I Had Very High Respect For The Pratt Institute, But I Thought That I Had Done My Best, And That Was Not Their Version Of The Best.

Every Father Was His Own Man. He Did What He Wanted. If Your Mother Went Shopping, Your Father Never Went With Her.

You Had To Grow Up Sometime. The Fellows Who Grew Early, They Were In Jeopardy. They Became The Cops And The Crooks, And The Crooks Became The Gangsters. The Crooks Became The Al Capones.

The Average Politician Was Crooked. That Was My Ambition, To Be A Crooked Politician. I'd See Them In These Restaurants, And They'd All Hold These Conferences. I'd See Politicians Who Were Supposed To Be On Opposite Sides Of Issues All Together At One Table.