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.

I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the figure.

I always thought it was a trap to fit into ideologies, and maybe that's a luxury position, but my work is a reflection of my being here. My being here is not a reflection of an idea.

When you get older, you're running out of time. You care more about trying to stay on the planet a little longer, so you can learn how to draw better!

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.

Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways.

I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.