Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

I can't shout out, "Do this." I don't want to be prescriptive. I want to give you facts, and that's the way I've always operated, whether it's a historical fact or a scientific fact, and then you actually have to connect it in your brain.

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me there on the site. Take a knife and cut open the earth, and with time the grass would heal it. As if you cut open the rock and polished it.

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.