You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.