I generally have an idea where I want to go, but I don't know how I'm going to get there.

I creep over to my chair and sit there with my notebook and my thermos of coffee. It's my best time for thinking, because I haven't started thinking about anything else yet, and the thoughts can kind of go in and out of my head.

It's one of my favorite times of day. I'll have an array of notes, things that I want to think about. Something will start to take shape, and I'll play around with it. It's not usually an intense time. It's sort of a playful time. But it's when some really good thoughts arise.

I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.

In some ways I'm very structured.

I don't feel like it's something I invented myself, rather something I absorbed and continue to do.

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