Sometimes I just cringe. I can feel the emotion, that whole anxiety of being in this new world that I sort of evolved into. I would just do it, put i….

You can dwell on things, and if you open your eyes and pay attention to it, those things start popping up around you..

What really made me a performance artist was that I was able to step back and assess. I've always had [that ability], but it was coming to an underst….

I'm actually looking for a gallery, but the thing is some galleries just want to show the video work and some are just interested in the 2-D work. It….

It's interesting how as an artist you keep evolving, but if you can get into the contemporary art space, if the works are in institutions and museums….

You can talk yourself out of doing something if you start to think about, "How would this person see it, or that person see it?" So sometimes it's al….

When I stepped back from the gallery I was in a phase where I thought I wasn't going to be making work for a gallery context for a while. People were….

If I have a piece that's solely based on the web and it's going to also exist in a gallery, it needs to exist in a gallery where it doesn't feel redu….

I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your….

I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students in it [and] one professor, because I f….

Every artist's world is an individual experience and no one thing can prepare you. You have to go in and go where those roles lead you - just allow i….

When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached..

I've learned that I need to learn how to direct without making the person distracted and keeping them comfortable, and pay more attention to lighting..

As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand..

I think I'm aware of entering my late 30s versus being in my late 20s, when the web was coming out as this new thing. It reminds me of how people use….

People say if you keep making work and keep putting it out, better things will come. I think artists should never forget that. I think that's what yo….

I remember when I first started putting things on the web and people were writing about it. I totally didn't keep up with what was going on because I….

I was trying to release emotions, exercise emotions, and then I entered the art world. Even after grad school, some of [the earlier works] were still….

If you want to be somewhere, you should go to that place and check it out..

I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, li….

Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally..