I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What led me to drawing was seeing so much self-important, pretentious, conceptual-type art in university. I wanted to reject that by making quick, fun art.

I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings.

I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

Taboos are always going to be interesting.Our [ with Michael Dumontier] style has its range and there is room for explicitness in violence, but not at the expense of our classy, highbrow image.

I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.

I don't teach. I don't think I could. I also don't really do anything else artistically, locally.

Each painting is its own world, but a lot of times I do see the paintings as one page from a story. You can imagine what has happened before or after. Sometimes they are worded as being a part of a story, especially the paintings where characters are in conversation.