It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then and I still don't have the temperament a….

What social media has done - Facebook, Twitter - is show the audience. I don't have an audience. When I make my work, it just goes out into the ether….

I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I ca….

If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings..

I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take your basic cartoon, there's always a pu….

I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic style, but it's also much….

It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telli….

I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if….

Sometimes there's a vacuum that has to be covered..

When I see a train, I want to take it in my arms..

Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened..

Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to human nature as yo….

In my time, we had little league and junior league or whatever - before that, there's the sandlot. Kids played baseball wherever you can make a space….

I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings' being shown. I've had an influence on t….

Whenever I reference something, it usually comes back at some point. I don't know why..

Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment...o r creating this alternate universe. Art gives me the freedom to ….

In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their liter….

My drawing came out of editorial-style cartoons. Music was one thing and art was another, and there weren't really any standards for my art. My work ….

I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness..

There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own versions. A lot of the writi….

I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology. There's a lot of conven….