He [Michael Jackson] would choose specific moments. They were art history books that I prefer. They were paintings that he prefers. It's this dance back and forth. We were halfway through the dance. He died.

I believe the artist is capable of contributing to the broader evolution of culture in all of its dimensions.

What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we live in.

All the world's a stage. P.T. Barnum: It becomes a circus. But circuses or street pageants or parades have always been useful in a society.They've always been useful as a way of critiquing power. The carnivalesque has always been useful as a way of the powerful being mocked in a public space.

There's always a tug of war. Like, in the States, in America, there's certainly a higher quotient, I would imagine, of, like, macho, like, masculinity posturing.

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.

I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where people are in cars.