If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.

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

I've often stopped working for long periods.

I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."

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.

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 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.