For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence.

This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire to throw away the old rules.

What's great about it is that painting doesn't move. And so in the 21st century, when we're used to clicking and browsing and having constant choice, painting simply sits there silently and begs you to notice the smallest of detail.

In our conversations, he [Michael Jackson] revealed a surprising understanding of art history. We were going through the finer points of the difference between one Italian sculptor to the next. You know, this - these are things that we don't necessarily assume of people in sanctified light.

I try to create a place of disorientation.

There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.

As a twin, I operate with twin desires.