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

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

But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind of thing into it.

I think you say the word in your mind anyway, you know. When you look at a word, you say it.

I had always spoken about the space between the art object and the person looking at it as this dynamic space, which I referred to over and over. So the idea of the space between two things was sort of interesting to me.

I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.

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.