Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.

In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.

It's not in the interest of the artist to think of his market.

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

A man without a family has nothing from life. I need my family in order to enjoy life when things are going well. And when things are not going well, they give me support.

I'm trying to stay humble because if I don't keep producing results, all of this goes away, so I want to focus on the people close to me - my family and my team; they mean everything to me.

Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.

Most people marry their mother. I married my father.