Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

Most people say about graveyards: "Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy." But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.

Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a mistake.

I'm a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can't pull out of it. But I don't consider myself negative-negative. I'm positive-negative.

I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.