I really kind of liked the fluidity and not really being tied down. I saw the kind of people that were tenured and what happened to them there and I thought it was kind of death, really.

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.

If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist.

You know, there are some people who just don't - that cannot get comfortable behind the wheel of a car and always sort of think they're going to kill somebody.

Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.

I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.