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I've learned over the years that you're going to be most successful at the things you're most excited to do. Every artist has a special set of tools. When you really use those tools, and you make yourself feel really good about the product you create, I think you'll find an audience for it. I've been very fortunate in that respect.

We try to connect with the audience as much as we can. We feel the energy from the audience, and it gives us so much joy and inspiration.

As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world. We're prideful, only showing what we deem as perfect or what we think our peers will respect.

There's a power in what we hold as artists, and part of that comes with responsibility... to share the human experience and really allow that to be seen.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

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

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.

Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.