My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

I’m really just using the mirror to summon something I don’t even know until I see it.

I'm good at using my face as a canvas… I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are.

Dreamers are those who have achieved in love and life, because it is a dream that got them there.

[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.

I was supporting myself, but nothing like the guy painters, as I refer to them. I always resented that actually.. we were all getting the same amount of press, but they were going gangbusters with sales.