I Had Wanted To Do A Comedy.

I Knew About Heatmiser, And I Saw Them One Time At Pine Street [later Changed To La Luna], Which Was The Center Of A Lot Of Alternative Bands During The 80s. But I Didn't Really Know Too Much About Their Music.

My Art Teacher In Junior High Was A Very Out Gay Man And A Mentor To Me. He Would Tell Us About Greenwich Village And Show Us The 'village Voice' And Describe His Life, But It Was All Sort Of Subversive And Below The Radar.

The Artist Himself Is Actually The Subject In Everything After, Say, 1900. Eventually, Art Becomes So Removed From The Community That You Have To Know About The Artist Before You Can Even Look At The Painting, Because There Is A Conceptual Idea Going On.

Yeah, I Try To Be Really Calm.

The Area Of Teenage Life Is Not Necessarily Rarefied; We've All Gone Through That Period. It's Not As Rarefied As A Western Or A Space Adventure Or A Gangster Film, But It Has Its Own Dynamic.