I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out.

Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts

Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never judge it.

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme.

Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.

You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.