I think I've always had an activist stance, yet at the same time, the other side of me - and this is where some people just don't get it, or they'd prefer it if the work was a lot uglier, a lot louder - I have this personality where I just want to put something out that's a fact and then let you interpret it. It's almost as if you might barely notice it, you might walk right by it, but you have to pay attention.

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

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

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.

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

To fly we have to have resistance.