I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

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

You can't make somebody care about what you're doing. Either they get it, either there's that connection - or they don't.

When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those few people who, shall we say, get it? Really become engaged, become moved by it in their own way. You cannot control what other people are going to think about it.

I never stop thinking about what I have to do. Let's put it that way. The only thing that takes me out of that is probably a film. I watch a lot of movies.

I went to Our Lady of Mercy, parochial school and I started Fordham Prep, but that only lasted about a year and then I - to me, it was like going to some kind of concentration camp. I was not very happy. And I only went there because that's where my brother went, really.