You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

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

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.