You can dwell on things, and if you open your eyes and pay attention to it, those things start popping up around you.

Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally.

If I want to do something in the TV industry, I should be allowed to explore that, but not in a way where it has to cancel out or ruin my visual art career.

Every artist's world is an individual experience and no one thing can prepare you. You have to go in and go where those roles lead you - just allow it to happen and follow your path.

Sometimes I just cringe. I can feel the emotion, that whole anxiety of being in this new world that I sort of evolved into. I would just do it, put it out there, and go for it.

As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.

If you want to be somewhere, you should go to that place and check it out.

When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.

I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work.

Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.

Baby, I'm not afraid. I've been to hell and back. I'm a free spirit, a wild child and a renegade.

The only obstacle is the absence of the knowledge in our minds of the wisdom of God that is able to move any mountain

Jealousy is not there to encourage you to make someone fail, but there to encourage one to do more than the one they envy.

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.

My tattoos are like a scrapbook of my life. Sometimes you don't feel comfortable in your own skin, so covering it up with pictures helps

Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.

I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.

I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.

January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.

I work on stories rather than individual pictures.