Even before I had children I wanted the intensity of my life to get greater. I wanted to feel things more strongly. I wanted my intellectual parameters to expand. But it comes back to your own desire to be engaged and to live up to your parameters.

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, its perfect. You dont have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. Thats where its found. Its found within you.

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.