What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.

Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.

And I've always loved playing solo.

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.