People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.

I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don’t inhale my own work.

All creatures are great and small.

At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.

I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.

As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.

Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.

When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.

At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.

Just because you can't see something, doesn't mean it's not there.

The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.

I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is.

Lord deliver mankind from darkness into light

It is madness. But sometimes, madness is the only path forward.

For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.

Mom somehow made it to every one of my graduations - even when it meant she had to travel far away.

I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

I love it, but it's not important to me to always be thought of as sexy. I like it when it doesn't limit my career. It's a part of my life, but on a secondary plane

He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

There's something unique about me, we just can't figure out what it is.