I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in a mental institution. I'm a regular guy who went to art school.

Making drawings with text in the first place, it really was born of a desire to be economic, and to do things as simply as possible, and to do as much as I could by the most economic means.

I guess I just always want to surprise myself and say something that I'm not really quite sure where it came from, and it sort of makes sense and has a kind of profundity to it. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.

I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.

I feel quite comfortable and happy with making a work that looks like it could have been made by somebody else.

I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.

I don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death.