What's in front of me is what's most interesting.

I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.

If you know what you're doing, you're doing dull stuff.

You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.

Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.

Paint faster than you can think.

If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground.

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

I know people can be a little nervous about swimsuits, but have some fun with it. Believe you can hold it down. If you believe you can hold it down, you can wear it.

Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps. One thing leads to another.

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

Let's go with what you have to get what you want.

I'll be mellow when I'm dead.

I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.

My wife at times will say I'm stubborn, selfish, insensitive, vague, deaf at times, blah, blah, blah... but she's never said I was boring!

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?

I feel privileged that people are looking up to me and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence.

I'm quite happy for my voice to be pushed up, whereas in the past I wanted it buried with the guitars, or part of the band, not like I was thinking of myself as 'the singer'.

It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.

The pressure of the [election] campaign has a wonderful way of revealing your strengths and weaknesses.