I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

I worked with someone else's photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn't that be my art?

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.