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That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.

When I started thinking about it, I was like, 'OK, if throughout time I get labeled as a conscious artist, I'll be very much celebrated, in a way, and honored.'

Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist.