I was good at art - always good at art.

I had always spoken about the space between the art object and the person looking at it as this dynamic space, which I referred to over and over. So the idea of the space between two things was sort of interesting to me.

Heidegger wrote a book called Was Ist Das Ding - What Is a Thing? which was kind of interesting and influential to me, as a matter of fact. It's a small paperback, which I read. It's about the nature of thingness; what is it? It's a very penetrating analysis of that, and I think a rather influential book. I know other artists who have read it and come up with it.

Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.

And after a while, you just pare things down more and more and more, until you get to certain basic things which just - basic ideas which just seem to work for you over and over again.

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.

If somebody gives me a chance to do something, I am going to use that space, that time, that light, that whatever it is and try and work with it.