FRANK-KATE

… I’ve been very careful, over the years, to leave myself the freedom to do the things that interest and amuse me. It’s been my theory that you can’t do art for a long time if it isn’t interesting and if it isn’t fun. I think that’s a very selfish thing, but the things that I have been interested in — the ironic things that I have noticed about myself and everybody else, the books I’ve read, the song lyrics I’ve heard, the images I’ve seen and the personal connections I’ve made with all those things — have all been in step with my work. I only do things that interest me: if it interests me, I’ll do it for free. If it doesn’t, I won’t do it at all. I think that my work is clean in the sense that I maintain the freedom to do what I want and not do what I don’t want. And otherwise I’m so perverse that, believe me, I would not have persevered if I hadn’t maintained that freedom for myself.