I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

The Winnipeg Art Gallery has a good collection of Inuit art, and most of what I've seen I've seen there or in the few books I have. I should spend more time researching.

Each painting is its own world, but a lot of times I do see the paintings as one page from a story. You can imagine what has happened before or after. Sometimes they are worded as being a part of a story, especially the paintings where characters are in conversation.

I don't teach. I don't think I could. I also don't really do anything else artistically, locally.

I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.

I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings.

I grew up on a farm with only two TV channels. I didn't grow up around much culture. When I got excited about painting, I never really got further than what would have been in a modern art history textbook.