Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.

Any artwork is part of something larger, grander and, you know, the situation that it's in is very important.

You can't have silence on the radio; people will turn away from the station.

I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won.

I took art courses, only in the sense that I was able to - I took art classes, which were fun, which I liked, but it was a - just a kind of a general education that I got, a regular academic - academic diploma, but I kind of had the feeling that art was something that I really liked the most but I wasn't really sure that that was it.

If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.

I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.