The most important events in recent history form a chain reaction. It started with the spear of destiny being passed from Hitler to Patton, which then created the atom bomb; I think America’s detonation of the atom bomb was the beginning of the end of mankind. Following that, Kennedy’s assassination was to modern man what Christ was to the people of his time. I like to compare Zapruder film to da Vinci’s "The Last Supper" - I think it’s significant in that same way. The next significant event was Charles Manson being sent to prison as what many would consider a political prisoner in some ways, a scapegoat for the "love generation," a generation that probably contained more hatred than any other. I’m not defending his crimes in any way. I don’t think there’s any sense in letting Charles Manson out of jail now. He’s not going to get a job at Baskin-Robbins. I’m just saying that the way America handled the whole situation was a turning point. Nixon and the media declared him guilty before the trial was over; that’s when the media began to contribute to decisions rather than reporting on them. That was when things started sliding down.  

People have stopped thinking all together. They’re always relying on someone else to tell them what they’re supposed to think, and man has kind of painted himself into a corner with technology so that eventually he just becomes useless. I think there needs to be some greater event. People expect it to be associated with the turn of the millennium, but that’s very predictable. I always look to art as the thing that moves and changes people the most, over politics and anything else. I have constant desire to expose people to anything, whether it be bad, good, complicated or easy to understand - just to have people thinking.