It really does feel, partly because of graphic novels kids read, like there's a lot of freedom with how you can use both images and words, because we think in both of those ways.

The morning time is also a time when I look at what I did yesterday. That's often a jumping-off point for today.

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.

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

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