The Work Itself Is What

As A Kid Growing Up In The 1950s I Became Acutely Aware Of The Changes Taking Place In American Culture And I Must Say I Didn't Much Like It. I Witnessed The Debasement Of Architecture, And I Could See A Decline In The Quality Of Things Like Comic Books And Toys, Things Made For Kids. Old Things Seemed To Have More Life, More Substance, More Humanity In Them.

Drawing Is A Way For Me To Articulate Things Inside Myself That I Can't Otherwise Grasp.

I Was A Child Of American Popular Culture. All I Did As A Kid Was What I Could Get At The Local Supermarket Or The Dime Store. Nothing Else Was Seen. Plus What Was On Television, Or The Movie Theatre. That Was It.

You Can't Make Everybody Love You. It's An Exercise In Futility, And It's Probably Not Even A Good Idea To Try.

I'm Into Old-time Music, I'm Not Very Interested In Modern, Popular Music At All. And If I'm Really Into Some Particular Old-time Musician, Some Fiddler Or Banjo Player, I'm Always Dying Of Curiosity To See What They Look Like.