I love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.

At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.

I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.