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

In some ways I'm very structured.

I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict.

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

A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to school.

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.

In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.