I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.

I’m trying to make other people recognize something of themselves rather than me.

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made already – the challenge is more about trying to make what you can’t think of.

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.

The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.

The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.

[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.

You are the earth, my dear grandson, and just like it takes everything without complaining, so have you shown us today that you will take everything in kind, and there's no greater title than this.

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.

I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'

I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use.

I only get involved with projects as a producer if I feel creatively inspired.

We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.

The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.