My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.

What's shocking is cruelty and torture, and that's become our entertainment. Kids can play violent video games, but God forbid they look at a naked woman. That's pornography, that's perverse. No!

I'll let criticism spoil breakfast, but I don't let it affect my lunch.

As an artist you have a choice. You can add more confusion and darkness to the world or you can shine a light, make a beauty.

There are going to be people doing the talking and people who get talked about, choose, which one do you want to be?

It's much harder to work for yourself, by yourself, than to create work for a gallery, because there are no limits and you can do anything you want. It's always easier when you have a parameter, when you have a limit. You can work within the limit and push it and walk the line, but when you're given absolutely no limits, it's harder. You must really think. It's more challenging.

There is nothing ugly in sexuality or in the body. It's human!