I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!

I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.

I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.

I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.