Because I'm always working on something, I'm always thinking.

I think this is pretty clear, but maybe not to everybody: Despite the fact that the work is personal or taken from life, it's not about me telling my personal story.

The personal is the political. That's an old tagline.

I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.

My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way of economical storytelling for me.

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

Putting Instagram into a different context is about rescuing it from the tyranny of now, taking it back from the muddy river that everyone is pouring things into. As a poet, as a thinker, as an artist, I believe there's another way to experience the world, and another way to experience time.It can't all just be public relations and branding; it's about making meaning with signs around you.