"I have survived in excess of twenty years as an artist, which is something of an accomplishment, particularly in a political climate such as we have now. I've lived in New York and London and Dublin and even Philadelphia , but I have always come back to the homespun peculiarity of Louisville, the midwestern fountain of oddity. Here it is possible to live and function on a pittance and the cigarettes are the cheapest anywhere."

Michael O'Bannon lives and works in the Tyler Park area of Louisville.