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To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

Exercise plays a huge role in keeping me sane, and that's my primary motivation to 'find time.'

I have realized sometimes I do better working under a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to be present.

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it's so essential that when I'm involved in the actual process, my so-called 'real life' becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

I love that my career has been documented and I can look back one day and share it with my kids.

I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.

I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around: my contract was up. It seemed an opportunity to take a life audit.