Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.

Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, It cant be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it. Thats kind of stuck with me.

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking.