I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time.

One's self is always shifting in relationship to beauty and you always have to be able to incorporate yourself or your new self into life. Like your skin starts hanging off your arms and stuff, and then you have to think, well that's really beautiful too. It just isn't beautiful in a way that I knew it was beautiful before.

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.

When I was young, it was an exciting time to be in New York.

Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.

We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain way, I want my work to have all that messiness.