I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.

I prefer music but sometimes if there's on talk radio - someone might be on that I like. I listen to the old - to "Air America," down at the - liberal talk shows and things like that I find kind of nice, their criticizing the conservatives. I find that quite relaxing, entertaining, but music, a lot of music.

If you are operating in a certain way and you are thinking in a certain direction, suddenly opportunities arise. And if you are open to it, if you are not locked into your style too much or to what you think works.

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.

After I did the drawings of trees combining them with words, I started doing - I did that for a very short time. Then it kind of - that sort of evolved into just showing the branches of a tree coming down into the trunk and then going into the root system. So I showed both the branches and the roots of a tree, which were about equal. There is as much going on under the ground as is going on above the ground, which you can see.

I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.

I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won.