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."

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.

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.

The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics.

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

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