All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

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.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

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

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

I think I've always had an activist stance, yet at the same time, the other side of me - and this is where some people just don't get it, or they'd prefer it if the work was a lot uglier, a lot louder - I have this personality where I just want to put something out that's a fact and then let you interpret it. It's almost as if you might barely notice it, you might walk right by it, but you have to pay attention.

I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode.