Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.

I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.

In this kind of super-capitalistic society, everything is turned into money. And one of the great things about art is it isn't worth anything. It's absolutely free. It's going to get made no matter what.

I'm a professional artist, that's how I make my living. So I watch the market. There is, it seems to me, a lot of pure financial speculation, and I don't think that's terribly healthy. Though as long as the money is getting back to the artist, I think that's good. I'm very happy younger artists can make money faster than we could. And we were making it faster than a generation before us.

I love the idea of hitchhiking into the city. It was bizarre.

When you're using a long brush, you have your arm at full length. Basically, it exaggerates the movement of your body. But I always start far away and end up really close.

I smoke pot when I work. I take a couple of tokes before I start. It just loosens you up.