Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally.

Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally.

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

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

I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.

I feel like my perception has changed a little because when I was posting stuff online it was an extension of my studio and then it started getting some of the attention. Now it's like, "Oh, this is actually a place where you can make money," but I'm not interested in competing in that space. It seems like too much to deal with.

I guess I cringe, because sometimes I don't even watch my live performances back. When I edit, it's this feeling of seeing my mistakes. It's always a mixture of loving characters, but being the artist that created it and not trying to go too deep in criticizing myself.