Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it...

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them.

I work with things left over from other things.

It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.

Our speech is poor interpretation of our perception.

The truth is the object of our lustBut the light is still so very dim…

The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

I did my gospel record, but there was nothing really of it. Maybe a hundred people bought it. But it's one of those things on the internet that people find and they make into a big deal.

If I'm honest with myself, I think it's probably true I have learned more in my life through pain than through joy. But hopefully that's changing.

What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?

C++ is an insult to the human brain

I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the bulimia.