It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
I've always been very tied to language.
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.