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

In my time, we had little league and junior league or whatever - before that, there's the sandlot. Kids played baseball wherever you can make a space. We played tackle-football on the street. Now we play basketball in the studio. We have a hoop. But we also have a pitching machine.

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.

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

No one can help me with my work. I think I do best when I am just left alone.

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.

My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.