I've always been concerned with my sculpture. The drawings I do at night at home to relax. And for a long time, I just gave them to friends or my wife and didn't really show them.

There's something about a toy to a child where the relationship is real, where the kid is playing, and it's just really amazing.

Many of my sculptures take a long time to make.

We're all equal in sleep.

I do a lot of thinking about my work while I'm walking. More in the early morning when I'm trekking in the mountains. When I'm walking in the city, I think more about people around me - my brothers, my wife, some business situation, commitments.

I've had fantasies in the past of walking across America or some great distance, but it's such a commitment of time that it's stopped me.

I think walking is a little more primal than art-making.

I've made a lifelong attempt to involve myself deeper and deeper in my medium.

Boat building is intellectual - everything has a reason. In sculpture, it has a direction.

I wasn't the class nerd, but I was weird. I could tell long stories and be funny, but I couldn't do sports. And I was always terrified of being held back.