I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak.

I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.

My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.

I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.