My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

I had a wild imagination as a kid - wild! - and I was outside all the time, swinging around in trees by myself.

There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.

I'm really quite normal. My imagination has some serious kinks in it, that's all.

I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up.