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

To fly, we must have resistance.

I do think the smaller-scale studio works have that incredible love of data crunching, whereas I would say the large-scale earthworks tend to be much more stripped-down. With the mappings, as connected as they are to a much more analytical idea, what's a map? And can I make a map about time? I think the first time was Hurricane Sandy, the flood plane; a moment in time, but indelibly marked on any of us who were in the city. Mapping time is something that I'm really interested in.

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

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

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.

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