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

I am always producing work, but there is always a sort of deadline where you have to finish work. I don't do it for a show. In other words, I am not like a fashion designer where I have a, you know - I have to put out the full line or I have to put out the summer line like that.

Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really.

I am an artist who works very well under pressure, in fact. I like to have deadlines.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.

I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.