I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.

I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.

I think we're conditioned by watching movies.

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.

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