I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.

I think it's bad for human beings to be artists. It's awful. You want to do something but you're constantly trying to decide what you want to do. Let's just say it's no place like Hawaii.

I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.

Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.

I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.