I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.

Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own.

I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.

It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before.

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.