I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.

If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.

When it does get below freezing and there is - it's cold enough for ice to form, then that changes the whole landscape, and it makes the landscape a different landscape to the one that I worked with previously. And I want to understand that. But the big tension of the ice works is that they're often made when it's cold enough to freeze one piece of ice to another.

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.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.

The early firings contained many stones.