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

Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really.

People ask me why I use words and the reason, of course, is that words talk to you. I mean, they're something that are generated inside of you and that you can relate to you.

I'm fortunate in one respect; that I don't have a lot of work in my studio. Most of it's out, gone; either sold or in galleries. I work with a lot of galleries.

I like contrasting between black and white and color.

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 idea of the culture that you live in determining meaning in your art, though, is a very important aspect of what art would be about. But that had more to do with the kind of general understanding of what the hell you're doing, you know.