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I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

One thing that changed when I moved upstate was that I became interested in different materials. I started making the stone benches because I was seeing rocks.

I do everything. Of course, I have 50 people who work for me to do the drudgery of mold making and all the foundry. This is an enormous task. But every stroke in these sculptures is from my hands.

I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!

While in college, I used to get my ideas from photographs in 'National Geographic.' I started painting palm trees and motorboats.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.