In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

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.

I think I've always had an activist stance, yet at the same time, the other side of me - and this is where some people just don't get it, or they'd prefer it if the work was a lot uglier, a lot louder - I have this personality where I just want to put something out that's a fact and then let you interpret it. It's almost as if you might barely notice it, you might walk right by it, but you have to pay attention.

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

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

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.