Some people are only alive because it is illegal to kill.
Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.
Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative. . . I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.
I like that feeling when you’re making art, that you’re taking the energy out of your body and putting it into a physical object. I like things that are labor-intensive : you make a little thing and another little thing and another little thing, and eventually you see a possibility.
The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.
You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision.
Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.
From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.
For me, glamour was always an escape. When I was a kid, my mother was hospitalized, she was schizophrenic. When she was sick, she wouldn't do her hair or her makeup, and she just looked terrible. But when she got on medication and she was happy, she would go to the beauty parlor and wear makeup. So I really associate glamour with being happy. If you put on high heels and lipstick or get a new outfit, you feel great. It's a celebration of loving yourself, and the whole ritual of it is so great.
I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up. '
A person without regrets is a nincompoop.