Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

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.

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.

I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

I thought I might have to give up art, but I couldn't think of anything else to do.