I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

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

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.