I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.

If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden.

I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.

I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work is very much who I am. I didn't try to make it that way; it just is. It reflects who I am and also my interests.

I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get it at all. It's not accessible to all people at the same level.

Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it.

I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.