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 never really that worried about doing something a little different, 'cause it always just seems to fit into what I want to do.

I guess I must just be obsessed with death. Apparently you think about it a lot more as you get older. Maybe you could chart how when I was in my 20s I talked about sex all the time, and in my 40s it's just death.

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'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft skills.

I think people are quite surprised that the handwriting I use in my drawings and paintings is my own handwriting. They're slightly shocked when I write them a letter.

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.