I've always been interested in archaeology, I guess ever since junior high or high school.

I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry.

In order to execute the idea, you need a certain material that is going to allow you to do what you're challenged to do in your imagination. You should use whatever you can and it's amazing how even if you change the medium, your work is still yours.

I have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work.

I have found, and most artists are probably this way, that [when] you're working on some kind of idea, the idea makes demands.

I've always liked New York even before I lived in New York. It represents something, I think, and it would be trite to say what it represents really because it's been said so many times.

Fortunately, when we have all our marbles, we can shift our memories very quickly.