I didn't think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of what I liked to do privately, which was to dress up.

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.

The awful penalty of success is the haunting dread of subsequent failure.

No matter how much struggle you face in your journey towards success, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.

HE ISN’T ABUSIVE BECAUSE HE IS ANGRY

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

Riddle me this, riddle me that. Who's afraid of the big black bat?

Human rights for everybody, there is no difference. Live on! And be yourself!

Work hard, play fair, be kind to all living creatures, and take a moment to just sit back and breathe.