If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

As a child, I certainly had a fascination with monsters and vampires.

Knowing that a great bit of the technology is active and actually happening, and that the technology that we're talking about, in terms of uploading a human consciousness, is probably not all that far away, to be honest. Indeed, it will happen. It's pretty close.

One day, the people that didn't believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.

Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.

The weirdest thing in the world is to see some guy who is just super earnest.

People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long.