I'm Poor White Trash From The State

The Advice I Like To Give Young Artists, Or Really Anybody Who’ll Listen To Me, Is Not To Wait Around For Inspiration. Inspiration Is For Amateurs; The Rest Of Us Just Show Up And Get To Work.

Of All The Artists Who Emerged In The '80s, I Think Perhaps Cindy Sherman Is The Most Important.

Like Any Corporation, I Have The Benefit Of The Brainpower Of Everyone Who Is Working For Me. It All Ends Up Being My Work, The Corporate Me, But Everyone Extends Ideas And Comes Up With Suggestions.

I Did Some Pastels And I Did Other Pieces In Which There Was Just Basically One Color Per Square, And Then They Would Get Bigger And I Could Get 2 Or 3 Colors Into The Square, And Ultimately I Just Started Making Oil Paintings.

After A Few Days In Hospital, I Was Thinking, Oh, Gee - I Raised In A Church, Protestant Upbringing Which I'd Rejected As An Adult - I'm Lying In Bed Thinking, Hmmm, Maybe I Ought To Pray. They Always Say There Are No Atheists In A Foxhole... And I Thought, Here I Am In A Pretty Good-sized Foxhole... And I Thought Naahhh. I Wouldn't Respect Any God Who Would Listen To Me After I'd Rejected Him So Vociferously.