Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.

...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.

Inspiration quite frequently arrives as a surprise. The key is being open to it.

When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great.

The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don't get confused.

I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate.

I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.