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.

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

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

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

What's interesting about making art is that you take everything you know about it and you bring it up to that point, and you start making a physical thing that addresses what that is. And when you do it, you don't know anything about it - if it's going to work or not work.

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