I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present

I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.

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

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.