"I realized that waiting for permission to tell a story is the quickest way to kill it," Day wrote in a Medium essay from 2020. "I am not just a performer. I am a vessel for the stories that the world is too afraid to look at directly."
In a recent Instagram Q&A, when asked how she defines success, Day answered: "Success is having the freedom to say 'no' to a project that bores me. I’ve done the grind. Now, I just want to make things that make my younger self feel less alone." katie ann day