Hardships and handicaps can...stimulate our energy to survive them. You'll find if you study the lives of people who've accomplished things, it's often been done with the help of great willpower in overcoming this and that.

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

I'm not too interested in books about India.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

Do be true to yourself, whether it's bad doesn't matter. The important thing - you have to copy while you're studying. And culture is - each of us - is like one pearl added to another to make a chain. We each contribute to the other. And that's all right. But once you're on your own, do that which comes from within. And I feel this very strongly.

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.