I think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be.

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

We need to not be scared [of muslim], but understand each other. When you're around these people, you see they have much more in common than their differences.

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.

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.

I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.

I don't think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes.