To erase the possibility of empathy is to erase the possibility of understanding.To erase the possibility of empathy is also to erase the possibility of art. Theater, fiction, horror stories, love stories. This is what art does. Good or bad, it imagines the insides, the heart of the other, whether that heart is full of light or trapped in darkness.

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

If you stuck me in a room and gave me art-making tools but told me no one would ever see the results, I don't think I'd have much desire to make art. What I do comes from a deep desire to be seen and to see others.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.