How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

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

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

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

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.