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

There were some types of sanctions that happen in the public world that made my work acceptable, where someone looks at the paintings and they don't - they may go, "okay," and then look at it in a different sort of way. Instead of just looking at it as some type of wild art, they look at it in a historical perspective or context.

When I'm making a movie, I don't like to know what's going to happen next. I like to watch something and be surprised all the time, and just not know, and let it take me wherever.

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.

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

It's nice to see your name in print. It's interesting.

Can I find a poetic that can be subversive enough to grab people in some subliminal way, to where they feel that they are altered and have had an experience that belonged to them?