I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market as it is to have a picture in a museum.

Even though I'm not actually performing in the works, I love the theatrical and have this fan relationship to showbiz. And one of the things that's a disappointment to me about art is that it's always a memory of something that happened. So I try to get as intimate or as real as possible.

Part of my impetus to get famous is to have access to printed matter. I love all the stuff like postcards, books, little things. I can make my own zines, but it just helps if you've got somebody behind you publishing things.

I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market as it is to have a picture in a museum.

One of the things I've had to struggle with is that part of what people find critically and curatorially questionable in my work is that I try to make things that don't read as art until they're in a gallery.

Most of my work is very temporary, very provisional. You can take it with you or you can leave it. Which is a tough sell for art. Because part of what art is supposed to do is make you immortal, either by making it or owning it.

I want my gay life to not wind up on the streets-on Second Avenue. But at the same time, I don't care if it does.