I'm not a trained dancer in the slightest.

I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.

I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.

I had always loved Joseph Cornell and wanted to do something with dioramas.

I made a tin man costume with tin foil and furnace parts because I thought it would help me be more heartless.

The muted color scheme allows the occasional brighter yellow or red to pop out on the wall in a show, which I like.

I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.

I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

The process of the body changing and making a whole human fascinates me.

I like all kinds of music but some of my all time favorites are P.I.L., Yoko Ono, T-Rex, and Anton Karas.

When I was a school kid I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing, I would make my own comics about my teddy bear whose name happened to be Ted.

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.

Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.

The yellow star? Oh well, what of it? You dont die of it.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma.

Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.” I laughed. “No problemo.

Man is the microcosm: I am my world.

Why is it offensive to portray a creep and a murderer as a homosexual, but totally acceptable to present him as a religious Christian?

The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.