I believe in sensuality. I believe in sex. I believe in the survival of the species. I like aspects of things that are ethereal, but I like the reality of nature and embracing the way nature works, and aspects of interrelationships between male-female, aspects of the body, the way the body has changed over thousands of years . . .

I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car.

When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together.

If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

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

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.