I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.

There are certain times you want to be here and there are certain times you want to just go. And when you go, it's usually so exhausting you have to check into a hospital when you come home!

I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.

I think style is a fringe benefit that looks like you made it.

Sometimes I'll dream that I saw a show and then I'll wake up in the morning and realize that I didn't see the show, that it was my dream. And I just remember what the paintings look like in the dream and I think, "Oh, nobody painted those. I can do that."

I think the nice thing about showing work in New York is that other artists come to see it. When you show work in Switzerland or somewhere else, everywhere else seems to be the provinces in a certain way. You wonder what your paintings are doing on the walls and you wonder who's looking at them.

I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads.