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 generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell they look like, they don't know what it feels like to stand in a room with them.

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

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

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

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."

Nobody is perfect. I don't think it's the most scathing indictment of anybody. It's pretty innocuous. [Miral] is just the story of one family and one girl, living in that part of the world, and that's what goes on over there. I thought that maybe it would be informative and useful for people to know more about it.