Girls seemed to like artists! I felt very drawn to the idea of power, really, and doing painting as a power trip, in a sense. This idea of power has always driven me.

The idea of the self interests me a great deal. What is the self? And finding yourself, and which self? In a way, we're more than one self, but you somehow try to get to a rock bottom self.

You can looking at that glass of water, not as a glass of water, but as paint on a two-dimensional surface. It's not just a question of looking, but of doing, in relation to this, in relation to that, in relation to the space between things.

Make friends with your unconscious life. That's a great source of energy.

The paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your eye, and the object.

The idea is to have no idea. Get lost. Get lost in the landscape.

I've done a lot of bad things in the past, and that troubles me. It is often before I could say I was a self.