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

I have no complaints, except for the world.

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt the dour certainties of pictures, property, and power.

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

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

Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.