You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.

We know under Nebraska there is an underground aquifer that is probably underneath the whole state, but what form does it take? I kind of want to focus on that, for almost political means, because we keep digging more wells. We're not replenishing, and we're having a crisis in water around the world. But how do you visualize it? I don't know, so I know what I want to study.