I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.
To be in America illegally is actually a civil offense and not a criminal one.
I think I've always been paranoid.
One of the things I had to really wrap my head around is I have no control over what people call me: advocate, activist, gay, Filipino, undocumented person, gay person with an Asian face and Latino name.
The last thing reporters and editors want to be told is what to do and how to write. They don't want to be some politically correct, Orwellian, kind of like "you're telling me how to write about. . . ?"
The hardest stories we tell are always about ourselves. How do you explain that you have been missing your mother for 20 years? I don't know how to explain that to you. I wasn't even sure I wanted to film that, because I don't know how I felt about it. I didn't want to put her through it, and I frankly wasn't ready. Because since I was 16, I just had created my own life for myself, you know? I left when I was 12. I'm 32. And I have gotten to know my mother more through editing her and looking and watching and editing her footage, you know.
I like Q&A's better than articles sometimes because I feel like I'd rather hear somebody actually talk or wrestle with.
I give dating advice on a regular basis. It's not that I'm any expert, but it's always nice to share that with your friends.
I always wore sneakers when I wanted to. It was always about being comfortable and being myself.
Reserve is the truest expression of respect towards those who are its objects.
For example, in one of my last exhibitions I had a 50-foot massive painting with I think perhaps a hundred thousand hand-painted small flowers. This was the Christ painting [The Dead Christ in the Tomb, 2008] in my Down exhibition [2008]. Now, I simply can't spend eight hours a day painting small, identical flowers. And so I've got a team that allows me to have these grand, sweeping statements.