I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me. I've always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.

We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything fresh and new, while habit implies routine and repetition. That paradox intrigues me because it occupies the place where creativity and skill rub up against each other.

When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.

By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.