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.

I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode. Interest in the land and concern about how we are polluting the air and water of the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic time-to witness the shaping of the earth before man.

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.

Every memorial in its time has a different goal.

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

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

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.