If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.

In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.

And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.