Sometimes my kids might tell me they had a dream or and maybe I'll paint some paintings from their dream. That's one good thing you get from your kids. Rob them of their dreams.

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

A lot of what I do is about being in the moment and I think that's hard for people to get. I like it when things suddenly affect the painting. I mix up this red and it affects the whole painting or this little bit of white falls down there, and something changes the whole nature of the thing. The residue on what happens, that's what's in the paintings.

You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to pay attention to.

My compulsion is to create things.

I don't think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes.

I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.