Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.

When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.

The miracle of being able to pay attention to other people in your life, and the miracle of being in time, and to continue being in time.

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

I certainly am one of those people who is incredibly privileged to have an art career, which happened out of luck. Then luck kept happening. Besides that, things just move along in their own weird way.

As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.

It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time.