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

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

My compulsion is to create things.

Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.

I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing.

Everything I've seen becomes real once it becomes memory. The films I've seen are interchangeable with things that have really happened to me.

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!