“In 1980, I was this graphic designer who really had nothing to do with the music business. I was also a teacher at CalArts. I had short hair. I was like an entirely different person. I was in my 40s. I was hired to do a mural for the L.A. Summer Olympics, which had to be 360 feet long, at the L.A. Coliseum. I came up with a man with a javelin, because the javelin comes from the beatnik world I was in, from the idea of the court jester with a staff. It was interpreted into this sort of conventional athletic figure. It took about two months to paint, and was done in sections.”