Cindy Sherman: Through some therapy and thinking about it a lot over the years, I started to realize that I think because I was the youngest of five and there was a lot of years between me and the others, to the point that I felt like they had already been a family before I even arrived and had this whole history before I even got there, and so, I think I felt, I kind of felt like I was growing up as an only child, even though I knew I wasn’t. And then also my siblings had children of their own who were just two and three years younger than me. So, I was, to them, I was, like, the oldest and the one that got in trouble for, you know, if somebody else, you know, did something wrong, like, “Well, you should have been watching them.” And so, it was like this weird juxtaposition of feeling like an only child but also feeling like the oldest to these other kids. And I think that turning myself into other characters was really a way to maybe get away from my family, or maybe to maybe I felt like, well, maybe they’ll like me better if I’m like this character or that character, or maybe I’ll be scary. I don’t know, it wasn’t exactly like I was trying to, certainly not consciously trying to, like, get out of my life and be these different characters, but I think that it probably had something to do with it. I definitely feel like in my work, I’m hiding. I don’t feel like I’m revealing anything like some people might think. So yeah, the most successful pictures for me are the ones where I don’t recognize anything of myself, and it literally seems to be, you know, like another character that comes through.