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."

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

I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around.

I think people have problems sometimes when things are too general. In fact, they are not really general at all.

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 think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.