I have a lot of ideas for art. And it is really - I don't really have time to do them all.

I really kind of liked the fluidity and not really being tied down. I saw the kind of people that were tenured and what happened to them there and I thought it was kind of death, really.

Any artwork is part of something larger, grander and, you know, the situation that it's in is very important.

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 am an artist who works very well under pressure, in fact. I like to have deadlines.

You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.