Artists have to be useful. They have to fill a role.

To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if Im inspired by the results.

I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.