By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.

I think I feel much more at home in studio.

Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.

The drawings that I show - the drawings that I present to people are finished works in themselves. They're meant to be thought of that way and not necessarily lead to larger pieces or anything like that. And that's the way I work now.

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.

You know, there are some people who just don't - that cannot get comfortable behind the wheel of a car and always sort of think they're going to kill somebody.

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