I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.

I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.

Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

The drawings that I show - the drawings that I present to people are finished works in themselves. They're meant to be thought of that way and not necessarily lead to larger pieces or anything like that. And that's the way I work now.

I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.