I like being around funny people.

I don't do the like, "This led to this, and this was why this happened." That doesn't feel real and isn't how I experience things.

The last time I was asked that, I said "A Year Without Spoons." Normally you get asked the same questions over and over, so it feels boring to say the same thing. But then I was like, I don't even know another essay I like. They're all good.

I wanted each different Chelsea to be able to navigate her own world without having to also speak to a larger narrative.

My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.

I do think that people yearn for connection and intimacy, and that they're hard things to achieve.

I think I've been able to express some of the more complicated feelings I had.