There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see that.

I think the most interesting stuff comes from people who've just got nothing to lose. You know, let's kamikaze this thing - just throw themselves in it, devil may care.

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

When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

I believe in intuition and approaching things as instant gratification. Just do the things you want to do, make the kind of pictures you want to make.

I was raised with the Bible Belt mentality, and by coming to California, I came out of this dark place and unlearned a lot of things I'd been taught.