My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.

It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.

We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.

My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself.

I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.

The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on.