I Use Photos A Lot For Drawing

There's Some Connection Between Visual Images And Music. But There's Plenty Of Old Records Where I Have No Idea What The Band Looked Like, Or Even What Sort Of Context The Music Was Played In.

I Use Photos A Lot For Drawing People And Personalities, But They're Almost Never Photos That I've Taken.

I Guess I Didn't Enjoy Drawing Very Much. It Was Like Homework.

Some Of The Wealthy Collectors Have Paid Lots Of Money For Artwork That I Already Did, But I Didn't Do It With The Intention Of Catering To Them. I Think Part Of The Reason My Work Is Attractive To People Like That Is Because It Doesn't Cater To Them.

They Were Just Snapshots, Nothing Special, Nothing Particularly Artistic. They Were Used For Utility Purposes. (on Photographs Of Mundane Streetscapes He Had Stanley Something-or-other Take In Sacramento In 1988 To Serve As Backgrounds To His Cartoons. People Don't Draw It, All This Crap, People Don't Focus Attention On It Because It's Ugly, It's Bleak, It's Depressing... But, This Is The World We Live In; I Wanted My Work To Reflect That, The Background Reality Of Urban Life. )