Artist

I don't think a lot of people realized that piracy is out there, and it's not a Disney-esque or Johnny Depp-esque type of thing.

For me, graffiti and the complexities with which it is either absorbed or expelled from what is going on, is a really good comparison to the way I see my work being similarly expelled or absorbed into different types of discourse.

I thought the first thing the pirates would do is take me out if they thought an attack was imminent. I really didn't see a good outcome.

There isn't really anybody who occupies the lens to the extent that Lindsay Lohan does. Something happens when she steps in front of the camera. There is this magnetic energy.

'Interview' created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people's doorsteps every month.

My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.

Anytime money is your main focus, I think we all come to problems.

I'm not a hero. The military is.

If we strive and continue fighting as best we can, we can overcome a lot of the personal and professional problems that we do have.

We really owe it to the military for what they do day in and day out that we never even hear about.

Being in that other world of media, TV, Hollywood, it's not a real world. For me going back to work, it was a pleasure to get back to the world I knew. That's the real world. That's normal for me.

I believe it is the responsibility of our government to protect the U.S., including U.S.-flag vessels.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

I try to get out of an image's way in order to let it articulate what is hidden.

When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that's the greatest likelihood that we're actually experiencing something great. But I think that's what the art world is most afraid of, because you lose that security. Then we don't know how to assign evaluation, whether it's cultural or otherwise.

I am just a bit player, a seaman doing his part like all the seamen out there.

The Merchant Marines fight piracy all over the world. We fight piracy in the Philippines, the east and west coast of Africa, and the east and west coast of South America.

Miami's my favorite art fair. I even surfed there one year.

I tell my kids, 'Don't do well in school, and you, too, can end up at sea.'

Many people are worried about my mental health. But as I've said many times, we're stronger than we think we are.