I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.