One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would hold up with illustrations of great artworks like [Vincent] van Gogh and Rembrandt [van Rijn].

You can find inspiration in everything. If you can't, then you're not looking properly.

At school there were some programs in music. I did take piano lessons, and we had a piano at home. I got very interested in that.

At one point I had dreams of being in the school band, but I didn't play an instrument that qualified me, and that was a problem. I always had fantasies to be part of that, but I did take my piano lessons quite seriously.

It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was a main interest at the time.

Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently.

What I adore is mixing the unexpected, things you don't imagine should go together