I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is a journey of discovery and some engagements with paint, with the nature of material, with bodily things...One wants to open the story, not close it.

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.