Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen.

In some ways I'm very structured.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along the way. And that means messing up a lot. That means throwing away a lot of drawings.

I generally have an idea where I want to go, but I don't know how I'm going to get there.

A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to school.

I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.

Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.

I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.

In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.

You have to want the book enough to read it.

When Uncle W. G. held out his hand to take my money, I dropped the dead mouse in his hand.

The Patch I knew didn't run from anyone.

It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.

I appreciate America for all the opportunities it's afforded me.

Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time.

[Jerry Brown] is California's way of celebrating the Year of the Child.

He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.

I am what I photograph.

You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.