I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object.

I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something.

I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.

When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.

Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.