It was overwhelming. There was a landslide of merchandise. We just got the ball rolling and away it went.

She told us, 'we'll take anything you can bring'.

It was just bugging us. What could we do to help?

Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It's about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.

My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.

Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.