Teaching I realized took up a lot of my time. I was a kind of a teacher that spent time with students, spoke to them after class, tried to help them out. I'd talk with them personally about their work and try to get out of them what they were thinking about, forcing them to thinking seriously and not just falling back on all the ideas that they had picked up someplace. And so I took my job teaching very seriously and that - as a result, it took up a lot of time.

I think I feel much more at home in studio.

Most of the criticism of my work was pretty good, but occasionally it would not be. And I just sort of felt that they absolutely didn't get what I was doing. It was their limitations on what they thought art should be or what they thought my work should be in relation to earlier work or whatever.

I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.

I think you say the word in your mind anyway, you know. When you look at a word, you say it.

Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.

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