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

I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

Artists have to be useful. They have to fill a role.

You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.

Art is a way of recognizing oneself.

Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are like signposts in the search for the past.