I like to take European language of painting and transfer to New York. So instead of like De Gaat or Toulouse-Lotrec painting the absent drinkers in a cafe, I try and paint people in McDonald's or people in Kentucky fried chicken or people in on the subway or in the streets of New York. But my interest is people. I'm not trying to be new or different. I'm trying to have paint with feeling. So my real interest is in doing portraits of people and the life of the streets. I didn't choose expressionism which is a more emotional approach to painting as a philosophy. I chose it because it temperamentally is who I am. I'm a little bit depressive, a little bit manic, a little bit emotional. So it suits me. And actually as I got older and I look more at history, I realized that a lot of these people were used anxiety as a color in a way. Like a suitine has a lot of anxiety. Cocoa Van Gogh is full of anxiety. So it's actually a legitimate temperamental choice but not intellectual, natural.