Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.