When I stepped back from the gallery I was in a phase where I thought I wasn't going to be making work for a gallery context for a while. People were like, "You should never leave a gallery if you didn't have somewhere else to go," but I wasn't trying to disrespect the gallerists in that way.

You can dwell on things, and if you open your eyes and pay attention to it, those things start popping up around you.

When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

We all, as human beings, have different layers, and if we become one-dimensional or really superficial, then I still think there are things that happened that got us to that place.

If you want to be somewhere, you should go to that place and check it out.

What really made me a performance artist was that I was able to step back and assess. I've always had [that ability], but it was coming to an understanding.

I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.