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I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

As an artist, I think it's important to always keep growing, and I definitely want to keep challenging myself.

When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I'm responsible for this tiny person. It's so surreal.

I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And I feel stronger now than I did any time since I've been a teenager - I mean, musically, creatively.

You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is.

My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.