I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

And sometimes the question that you pose or the project that you start yourself turns into something else, you know, but at least it gets you started.

Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.

It's just strange to think about...whether I'll be an artist or what I'll be doing.

And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell, and you can do it over again, even if you can't say how you got there exactly.

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.