I don't want the ideas to be limited by what I can physically do. The ideas come first.

I don't set out to make something that is repulsive and that would scare people. I know that some people don't like what I make, and don't find it cute, but that's hard for me to understand.

Artists make worlds for people to walk through.

Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people and they talk back to you. That's how ideas get formed.

We always use plywood rather than MDF for structural stuff for the same reasons [stability].

The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.

I finished VCA at the height of the last big recession in the early 90s, and seeing that I was not going to be able to join one of the dwindling number of commercial galleries, I started an ARI called the Basement Project which ran for three years. Things came a little at a time and all of a sudden it's 20 years later and I'm still making art, which is really all I ever wanted to do.