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.

You'll find that street casting in America is a lot different than street casting in different nations.

There's something really cool about being able to fly to South Africa and watch one of the most talented African footballers wearing a shoe on the field.

In my work, I want to create an understanding, not about what a painting looks like but about what a painting says.

I was trying. I was crawling. I was coming into myself. I was trying to in some ways get beyond - what is the word that I'm looking for? - metaphorical language in painting, and to create something that was more indexical. And what I mean by that is that when you go to the library there's an index card that refers to a book that's actual and real in the world. So that index relates to something real.

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

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