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Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.

I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.

I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow.

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.

I think the frustration you can get into as a young artist is when you realize your limitations, but you want to accomplish that rather than seeing that you don't have to do everything. Just focus on your strengths.

I don't think there should be a hierarchy of what is valid in the arts.

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.