My Virgen de Guadalupe is not the mother of God. She is God. She is a face for a god without a face, an indigena for a god without ethnicity, a female deity for a god who is genderless, but I also understand that for her to approach me, for me to finally open the door and accept her, she had to be a woman like me.

Write about what makes you different.

Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.

To me, the Virgen de Guadalupe is just a vessel for me to recognize my own God within myself.

We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are: you're an adult, you're supposed to manage, you're supposed to get over it, you're supposed to go on with your life, and you feel like a lost child.

As an artist, I have to be the ambassador of everything.

I would drive on streets that were one-way and think, "Why are they all honking at me?"