I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.

The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.

Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.

There's a kind of poetic aspect to inert gas. And remember, first of all, they were completely unknown a hundred years earlier. We just didn't know about them. And then when they were discovered in the atmosphere, the idea that this is a material that would breathe in and exhale and becomes part of us for a while made it even more intriguing. The names, the Greek names, are interesting, too - if you translate neon, xenon and so forth are kind of interesting.

I wanted my style to be very recognizable.

I'm fortunate in one respect; that I don't have a lot of work in my studio. Most of it's out, gone; either sold or in galleries. I work with a lot of galleries.