[atari 2600]

David: What was it that originally inspired you to start drawing and painting?
Robert: I just had a natural propensity to express myself graphically. When I was a little kid I would scribble, and things like that. I'm left-handed, and I think that has a great deal to do with it.
David: Why is that?
Robert: Because I use the other side of my brain. I'm driven to fiddle. I remember when I was extremely young-- like three or four-- my parents would sit me down on a big piece of butcher paper with crayons. I remember drawing a human skeleton, bone by bone, gigantic in red crayon. This was supposed to be Red Skeleton.
David: So you think that because you are left-handed, and therefore use the right side of your brain more, you see with a perspective that most people don't have?
Robert: There's an awful lot of people claiming an elitism by being left-handed, and I wouldn't want to do that. But I did have a propensity for drawing, and I think being left-handed had something to do with it. I'm not the only underground artist that's left-handed. There are an unbelievable amount of artists that are left-handed. There's also a disproportionate amount of people that are in prison and insane asylums that are left-handed.