Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.