Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid.

I don't really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does this mean in your home? And how are you supporting this work and the message behind the work?

I've never been interested in being relevant.

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one way or another back then, but now, thinking about my grandparents - who are still alive but getting older - I see the birds as sort of time capsules. Now I go home during the holidays and they hold a lot of weight in terms of nostalgia and memory. Now they mean everything.

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.