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

Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.

I think I'm aware of entering my late 30s versus being in my late 20s, when the web was coming out as this new thing. It reminds me of how people used to tell me about my great-grandmother and how they used to gather around a radio listening to soap operas.

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.

If I step out too much while in the process and don't allow myself to get into it, the piece may not get made.

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.