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

I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.

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.

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

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'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 do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.