I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.