I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.

I'm an artist living in a small, Scottish village. So one would expect to be treated with some sort of caution. And the village and the farmers have shown enormous tolerance of me and interest in what I do. I mean, they don't necessarily understand what I'm doing all the time. But they, you know, I think they respect what I do and that there is a connection between what they do with the land and what I do, you know, that we're both dependent on weather and respond to that.

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things; otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realization. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.