My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.