Tell me something about your paintings that most people don’t know.
Andrew Masullo:The paintings are by-products of the process.
TMN:Has there ever been a time when you didn’t paint anything?
AM:I’ve spent most of my life not painting anything.
TMN:Imagine an exploding box of glitter. Nuisance or art?
AM:“Something is a work of art when it has filled its role as therapy for the artist.” Louise Bourgeois.
TMN:Something from your childhood that you wish would come back into fashion?
AM:I miss the days when only men in the armed forces and sideshow freaks were tattooed.
TMN:What’s the worst advice you’ve ever given?
AM:In 1981, I took my own advice and began working in a reinsurance company. I quit after two days. It was my last fling at adulthood.
TMN:Skydiving or bungee jumping?
AM:Hot air ballooning.
TMN:When do you lie?
AM:When I sleep.
TMN:Would you rather be a turtle or a squirrel?
AM:A squirrel if I don’t become road kill, a turtle if I don’t become soup.
TMN:If this were your very last conversation, how would you sign off?
AM:I wouldn’t.