People want to hear the dirt. But this is not really anything I want to talk about.

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.

I feel that most gay men are so much more in touch with a certain kind of sensitivity that heterosexual men aren't allowed to be in touch with, their feminine side. To me they're whole human beings, more so than most of the straight men that I know.

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.