Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.

When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles. I've always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It's a claim to forgiveness. It is never aggressive, it's not a pin.

You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other.

It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.