On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead, I just thought, Well, that's all about photography, and photography's not that interesting, and it's changing anyway.

I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?