If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.

I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.

I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.

Can I find a poetic that can be subversive enough to grab people in some subliminal way, to where they feel that they are altered and have had an experience that belonged to them?

I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists who were doing interesting thing, but I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists.