I work from the inside out.

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if I could play with it sculpturally.

China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming.

The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.

Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.