I think a lot of people take a scholarly approach where they feel like you're supposed to study things that depress you.

A lot of the acting students would do modeling in the arts school, so there were some gorgeous girls, but the cliché in our school was to get either the really emaciated person or the really obese person - which is stupid.

Culture is for old people. When you're young you have your body, and that's all you need.

Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.

It wasn't really until after I got out of art school that I realized that I'd been doing that sort of for the audience, for that context. Somehow, being alone in the room, it made no sense at all to make those kinds of paintings.

Your style is who you are when you’re not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.