We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.

I wanted people to know that I was making what I was making just on a sampler, basically.

If you ask me what people want from me, they would probably just want me to be true to what I'm doing.

I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of the human experience in some way.

We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.

I am making art. It's not a job that you've gotta show up to and fill in your slot. This is a dream come true. You get the opportunity to say something, to make a piece of art and hang it on the wall forever. Sometimes you're gonna have to take your time.

Trying to separate myself from my instincts of pessimism and cut out and define what it is that I really do love, what I'm here to be, why I'm here, and what I think is worth being alive for and fighting for. And those things change, but I think that that's something I am always chasing.