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 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.

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.

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

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.

It's the ego, not your soul which progresses when your passion turns into an obsession.

It is easy to hold on, but it is difficult to let it go.

When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.

I want to play Martin Luther King. I want to tell the real story, his demons, his struggles as a man, not just as a hero but fallible, I want to show that side.

The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws.

It's easy to dream about it ... Much harder to execute it ....Work!

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother

I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' "It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.

Neighbours: the strangers who live next door.