Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the moon would come out and where the sun would appear in the morning.

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.

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.

I am a lonely runner, but I am a long-distance runner.

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