I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.

Most of my town hall meetings had always been love fests, and some of my guys used to complain: 'I'd like for somebody to yell at you a bit.'

I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.

I love New York.