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I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.

I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something and I tend to feel like it's leading me and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.

I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do as by the things you do.

Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

I've had some great examples in my career of how to do things the right way.

And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do.

It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart.