I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.

I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

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

I just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I just do it.

The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.

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.

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.