I don't want to make myself sound that spontaneous, because I'm not.

In some ways I'm very structured.

Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen.

I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along the way. And that means messing up a lot. That means throwing away a lot of drawings.

I don't think about it that much, but sometimes I am surprised by that. I sometimes wonder why I didn't turn out to be the kind of picture-book writer who has stuffed animals that go with their books. That would be okay with me.

I do like to be surprised.

I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.