I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.

I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.

When I went to the Studio Museum in Harlem, there was a type of freedom that existed where I didn't have to think about professors, where I didn't have to think about much of anything other than my own practice.

I was surrounded by art by virtue of not only the educational opportunities that my mother's foresight availed me to.

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.

It was something that came sort of matter-of-factually. Because there - it's like really - real honest engagement with the people around me and just like really honestly being a little bit confused, quite frankly, about Harlem.

At the same time I really enjoy painting flesh.