I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.
An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it.
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.