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

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

These days people believe they can go into art and make a living. We didn't have that. The abstract expressionists were older, by the time they even got a show. Now people come right out of school and sell.

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

A work of art is a renewable source of energy.

A painting, you know, it's all dirty material. But it's about transformation. Taking that earth, that heavy earthen kind of thing, turning it into air and light.

When you're not smoking anymore, you don't have to carry around a pack of cigarettes, a lighter - all this paraphernalia. So you're liberated in a certain sense. It's the same with drinking.