I do like to be surprised.

I'm German, after all.

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

Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen.

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.

By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"

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