I always made stuff but never thought, I'm going to be an artist.

My art practice is very detail-, labor- intensive and I think that that's a way of slowing myself down so that I can hear myself think. That quieter voice has sometimes the more interesting idea, if I can get to it.

A Scorpio, it's just about peeling back the layers. And I'm always surprised at myself-there's a lot under there.

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.

For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of the nine rings of hell.

I always made stuff but never thought, I'm going to be an artist.

I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.