My work is intensely personal.
I have never voted in my life.
Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.
Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.
I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.
As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.