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 don't draw every day. I tend to draw intensely during certain periods of time. I draw to amuse myself on occasion, when I am bored and drawing is the only fun to be had.

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

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

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.

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.

Sometimes commercial galleries ask for particular work to sell, but I try not to be bossed around by them. I didn't become an artist to get bossed around.