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.

I guess I cringe, because sometimes I don't even watch my live performances back. When I edit, it's this feeling of seeing my mistakes. It's always a mixture of loving characters, but being the artist that created it and not trying to go too deep in criticizing myself.

It's interesting how as an artist you keep evolving, but if you can get into the contemporary art space, if the works are in institutions and museums, they keep living on and on and on, even if you move to a different space, that work is still operating.

I almost feel like if I didn't have the gallery and museum content it would be easy to get lost. People's attention spans are so short they see something and it trends for a few days and then it goes away and something else comes.

I was trying to release emotions, exercise emotions, and then I entered the art world. Even after grad school, some of [the earlier works] were still lingering in my head. I realized there were some pieces where I felt that I had to respond to the criticism.

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.

We all, as human beings, have different layers, and if we become one-dimensional or really superficial, then I still think there are things that happened that got us to that place.

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.

You can talk yourself out of doing something if you start to think about, How would this person see it, or that person see it? So sometimes it's allowing myself to be in it and not talking myself out of it.

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

If I have a piece that's solely based on the web and it's going to also exist in a gallery, it needs to exist in a gallery where it doesn't feel redundant.

If I step out too much while in the process and don't allow myself to get into it, the piece may not get made.

I've learned that I need to learn how to direct without making the person distracted and keeping them comfortable, and pay more attention to lighting.