I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

Let go of something old that no longer serves you to make room for something new.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Ask the Lord to reveal to you the reason why He created you

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

One thing about me, when I make a decision about something, I realize when you make choices in life, that dictates your life.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.

There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.

Voting is the foundation stone for political action.

That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, but don't always get.

When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.