I'm making art and making decisions and editing things. I don't live my life to broadcast it into the art world; I don't see it as my life on the stage.

My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way of economical storytelling for me.

That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.

My dream is to collaborate with a mature person.I feel like my talents were being wasted in art school. I would like to try something else, but not the obvious or usual thing.

The personal is the political. That's an old tagline.

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

I think this is pretty clear, but maybe not to everybody: Despite the fact that the work is personal or taken from life, it's not about me telling my personal story.

Because I'm always working on something, I'm always thinking.

I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.

It seems my heart is made of tissue paper

...this is life. Right here in this room, with you, is life.

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

Order doesn't come by itself.

I want to be a legend, like Celine Dion.

Producing is important because if there is no one making the tunes, there is nothing for the DJs to play, and nothing for the people to dance to.

I have a 12-year-old daughter, and all the time people will say, 'Oh, she's young!" and you'd be so surprised what you can learn from that 12-year-old if you just opened up your mind.

Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder

Don’t fuss. I love you just as you are, Mercy. I don’t need to swallow you whole, I don’t need to be in your head at all times. I just need to know that you’re there.

I'm making little changes in my life to take care of myself, like putting in a mile or two on my treadmill every day.