I like challenge. I like to be put into a situation which I haven't done before. Something new presents itself and I see if I can somehow finagle it into making a work of art out of it.

You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.

Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.

I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.

I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really operate outside of it. So looking for what this work is really about, if I look at Velázquez, if I look at Las Meninas or The Tapestry Weavers [1657] or something and really study it and try to figure out what that painting is really about, then I find relationships between what I'm trying to do and what he was doing.

I work with deadlines. It is terrible to be an artist where you are just producing work and nobody gives a damn. Nobody wants to show it.

Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.