I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.

The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.

Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.

It was impossible to sleep. Anxiety stopped me from falling asleep

Procrastination at the start and sometimes during the project meant there wasn’t time to execute the plans well enough.

Where there are humans, You'll find flies, And Buddhas.

You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.

If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.

Ohh, how clever," Aden said and clapped. "A death threat. You know what's funny? That's not even my first of the day.

When I'm off the clock, I usually play video games - or do something nature-y so I can contribute to Mother Nature.

I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.

I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find myself dreading the questions left unanswered by my childhood.