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

I made a drawing for a book I'm working . It's a little drawing of a girl who's ashamed and upset and hides in the corner of the closet. It's the kind of drawing that I feel like I'm really good at.

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 think we're conditioned by watching movies.

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

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