Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

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

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

You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will - through work - bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great "art idea."

Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.