Everything has the energy of its making inside it.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.

Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

when you unfriend the people you need, soon you will have to befriend the people you don't need

I knew the Beatles songs and how influential they are to other bands, but I'm not a fanatic, so I could look outside the box and observe.

No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.

Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.

I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

She was far too busy living out a passionate romance with Jesus Christ to be pining after an earthly prince.

Listening reminds me how precious it is to be here at all. And so, listening is the first step to peace, both inner peace and the compassion that connects people.

Have to and get to?both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry.