I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

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.

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

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

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.