I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.

I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.