Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.

A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.

Your style is who you are when you’re not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.

I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.

I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.

You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level.

There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.

Culture is for old people. When you're young you have your body, and that's all you need.

I think what I do is find a cliché and try to believe in it, try to get to where I don't laugh at it.

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.

That was an important development for me, just realizing that you need to follow your pleasure, at least as a painter. I think any kind of artist needs to, no matter what you're doing.

If I don’t succeed, I will try again and never stop trying.When I succeed, I will again explore new opportunities.

I read somewhere that dedications are like coded love letters, but I always seem to lay us out bare.Sorry for the poems.

The tragic irony in all of this is that when we focus so strongly on our need to get better, we actually get worse.

Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

One of the best ways to cultivate a possibility mind set is to prompt yourself to dream one size bigger than you normally do. Let's face it, most people dream too small, they don't think big enough.

I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.

You can't enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.