Everything around you can use. It's like your tools and your material. Whether it's in performing arts like dance, or visual arts, or poetry, a lot of those elements can come and help you, can trigger your creativity. But you have to be open, be aware, and you have to be ready to look.

I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.

There are multiple things entering in your mind.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.

This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.