Smart art galleries know it's not the words on paper but the emotion in the piece that makes clients pull out the credit card or check book. The gallery's number one concern is will this stuff sell? What your bio, artist's statement or resume articulates will be of no help if you don't make art that connects with buyers.

As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.

If what you are doing is working, DON'T change just to be different. Just get better.

I probably could have a hip-hop-style entourage of 40 people coming with me to the club or whatever, and I don't do that. And I think sometimes maybe I should. It just makes things easier - if you don't like being by yourself, maybe just don't do it ever.

The secret is planning your work and working your plan. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you arrive? You can't stumble upon your destination.

I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me.

It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.