There was no luxury. I never got on an airplane until I was 18. We drove everywhere. My dad was like, "Waste not, want not."

You find the people that you need to find. There's this gravitational pull.

From 8 to 19, I was skateboarding every single day. That was my life. I worked at a skate shop. I watched skate videos.

The cool part about New York is that you can do that. You can talk to all the people you admire.

I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get a scholarship.

All my work, really, is based on my brothers and sisters. I had so many adventures with them and a big part of the work is to recreate those. It's easy for me to be around a lot of people, because I can retreat. I can watch everything.

What I really believe is that there are no coincidences anymore.