And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.

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

You can't just suddenly change gears and reverse yourself or go to the left or the right because there is no left or right. There's always a certain direction that you're moving in.

Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.

I was an adjunct. I never got tenure, never had it. I was a professor, though. But I never got tenure. I never really wanted tenure, to tell you the truth. Really wasn't - the guys who got - the tenured people were some of, like, the least interesting. And they were people I didn't really like very much anyway.

The notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with earth and metal and different kinds of metals and the interaction of different sorts of material.