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Because I went to Chouinard, which then became CalArts, I became a multi-discipline artist - it wasn't just about painting, it was about media and performance.

I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school.

I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

Art was a way for me to express myself and for me to also escape because it was tough growing up as a child. We didn't have a lot of money. I was always creating. I was writing stories. I was doing comic books. I made my own universe.

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.