I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.

Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

You basically only discover a new thing once.

I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.

Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.

I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.