I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

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 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.

As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.

I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.

There was no hope for any kind of big opportunity. I'm not saying it was hopeless. The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.

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