I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.

I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.

All I want is to have my peace of mind...

This skin cripples me. It always has. — Kai Cheng Thom to -----, 2013 (age 22)

Why pray and live in doubts and fears afterwards? Don't you trust God anymore?

Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.

Greed like the love of comfort is a kind of fear.

I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.

I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.

As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.

Consistency is the death of good acting.

Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for?

I learned that you've never made it, you've never arrived, you're never too good, you're never above anybody else.