There's always something that happens where I go, 'Oh, that was so awkward!'

I am lucky in that my children are grown, my youngest is twenty-seven. I didn't have the conflict between artist and mother while they were young because I really focused in, very much, on the mothering aspect.

Just accepting that vulnerability is part of the deal, I think, makes that part okay.

All things must end, and they do! You're only stuck in a place if you choose to stay stuck there.

If you're in a painful place, be there, feel it, but don't stay stuck there. Do what you've got to do to get out of there. And if you're in a really joyful place, believe that that's not going to last either.

Right now in my middle years, I'm getting to enjoy a resurgence of my own creativity, which I'm fully embracing and enjoying.

There's always something that happens where I go, 'Oh, that was so awkward!'