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

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.

I do not think you can find a reason for everything you make.

I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.

You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.