We all know artists who like to collaborate, who like to work as a team. It all kind of depends what your habitual working method is.

Working people are working even longer hours, even though we won the eight-hour workday at the Haymarket General Strike in Chicago.

Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it.

When Allen Ginsberg was still alive, he was was an artist, but he was very local. He was just another wing-nut in the neighborhood and he was very accessible. You'd see him in Tompkins Square Park or in the local delicatessen, in one of the greasy spoon restaurants on First Avenue or a Chinese restaurant.

As I developed as an artist and studied art history, I noticed that all the great works were dealing with the human condition. [Art] had humor in it. It had sex in it. But it also had sorrow running through it.