We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.