I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.

When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.

Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.

I know there is also the influence of television and being able to zap away so it is a weightier decision to go into the theater than it used to be. And probably attention spans are not as strong as they used to be, generally speaking.

Some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things.

The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done with it and it is a fixed pitch instrument. It is a bit like trying to paint because there is the weight of all that has been done before.