You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.

Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.