My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.

Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.

I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

If you want to be creative, don't try to do something new. Doing something new means NOT doing what's been done before, and that's a negative impulse. Negative impulses are frustrating. They're the opposite of creativity, and they never yield good ideas.

I made the things particularly because I wanted them to see the world.

If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.