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.

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.

Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.

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 times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.

I've always found paintings of nudes depressing because they can't compete with photographs. The grainiest photograph of some girl, a blurry Polaroid - you'd rather look at that than the Venus de Milo, because you think, Wow, that's really somebody... This camera really was in front of this real naked lady.

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.