In some ways I'm very structured.

If I could make a career out of drawing little girls hiding in corners, I would do really well.

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.

I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along the way. And that means messing up a lot. That means throwing away a lot of drawings.

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

I do like to be surprised.

With most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for.