Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.

Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally.

If I want to do something in the TV industry, I should be allowed to explore that, but not in a way where it has to cancel out or ruin my visual art career.

Every artist's world is an individual experience and no one thing can prepare you. You have to go in and go where those roles lead you - just allow it to happen and follow your path.

Sometimes I just cringe. I can feel the emotion, that whole anxiety of being in this new world that I sort of evolved into. I would just do it, put it out there, and go for it.

As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.

If you want to be somewhere, you should go to that place and check it out.

When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.

I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work.

I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.

When indeed you positively press your face, so to speak, against the crystalline window of your eyes, your mind is apt to become a perfect vacuum.("Out Of The Deep")

Even discomfort or pain delivers awareness of life, and an opportunity for gratitude.

To the determined mind, nothing is impossible

When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.

If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.

Working with Jim Carrey is an absolute gas. I have never laughed so hard for so long. Had he been on-board for the sequel of Dumb & Dumber, I would've jumped on, with no hesitation.

No," I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator.

As the world is weary of me so am I of it.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Budget the luxuries first.