In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

I think I needed to really move past my first public work as memorialist, and be equally balanced. It's a bit unusual, to be working between the architecture, the art, and what I would say is a synthesis, the memorials - they're problem solving, but it's very symbolic. You get this triangle; I need to be balanced with those three. They're all equally a part of who I am. I love how different they are, and yet they're coming out the same thing, whatever it is.

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

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

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.

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.

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.