I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
I love that moment of, 'Remember when?' I love to waft.
I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.
I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.
I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.
An artist is made to entertain. That's their primary goal, to entertain you. But some artists record the moments of time. You wouldn't know what was happening in the '20s and '30s; you got to check the song or art.
When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.
The other day in the garage, I found a book report from the seventh grade that I did about silent movie stars. It's funny to look at now, because it really foretold what my future would be.
When I die and my memories die with me, all that will remain will be thousands of yellowing photographs and 35mm negatives in my filing cabinets.
In archaeology, context is everything. Objects allow us to reconstruct the past. Taking artifacts from a temple or an ancient private house is like emptying out a time capsule.
Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.
When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
I cry whenever I watch an emotional scene that I did, just because it brings me back to that moment. It's like, I remember being there; I remember feeling what I felt. It's really weird, right?
In a hundred years the historian will understand me better.
So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.
One-hundred years from now, nobody's going to remember that I played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays - nobody!
History happens to one person at a time.
I have always had a great interest in visually documenting the past.
A CD is only a snapshot of the songs at a given time.
