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

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

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.

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.

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

I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.

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