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

It's really daunting when you have just spent a lot of time on something to think about tossing it out. But once you've started something better that's working right, then it's pretty easy to let the first one go.

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

I don't like things to be static when I'm working.

I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

I'm heavily influenced by Edward Ardizzone, how he has people talking in little speech bubbles. I love those. And also Edward Gorey. Those are two of my favorite people.

I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth.