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I don't like to watch my work after I do it because it just - I'll always look at the wrong things.

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.

When I work, I work very hard. When I don't work, I have to do something where my endeavor can totally take me off what I do professionally, like sailing. It takes all your attention.

I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.

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.

When I'm doing something, I do work hard at it.

I have never been satisfied with a piece of work I have been actively involved in, and would never want to be.

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.