My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other.

It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.

Art is manipulation without intervention.

If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.