I sometimes look at the careers of other. . . I guess I could call them contemporaries or … - Mike Royer

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I'm not altogether sure what I'm going to do for that. I think it will be a lot more low key than the other two I've done. Dare I say it, a bit more relaxing.

Mike Royer

I sometimes look at the careers of other. . . I guess I could call them contemporaries or maybe close artists; you know, the 4 or 5 guys who go to New York City and get a loft and work together and use each other as models and that sort of thing and wait for years and years to get married. Maybe I just wasn't that definite.

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I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley in Oregon into a middle-class family who didn't have the funds to say, "Here, kid. Here's your money for school. " So I worked real hard during the summer and saved money and was able to go to school for a year and borrowed a little money which I paid back after that first year.

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