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We're drawn to making our mark, leaving a record to show we were here, and a journal is a great place to do it. Once you start drawing, writing, and gluing stuff in every day, it can quickly become a habit - addictive, even. Your attitude should be: 'I can do this, but I mustn't make it too intimidating.'

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.

I paint every day. I really have no hobbies. That's all I do.

I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids.