Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.

It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like.

When I see a train, I want to take it in my arms.

Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV.

Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.

There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.

In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their literature literally.