I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

I'm interested in power.

I don't think irony is about judgment; I think irony is something like, "Oh, that's interesting," because it's not something I think one starts off to achieve. I think it's just something that presents itself. And if it does, I find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms.

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

It's wonderful to make a lot of money, to be able to take care of my family, to have the facilities I have and really support the people the studio's involved with. But at the end of the day I'm quite simple as an artist-it's really about the power of art.

Art helped give me confidence.