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.

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

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

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

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.