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I think the job of artists is to stir things up.

As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.

It's emotional for artists who are women and people of color to have less value placed on our worldview.

In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.