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When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job.

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

At art college, I started to do music and then painting and drawing - and that would have been my ideal life, to be an artist and be paid for it, to be able to create stuff. I realized it was difficult, but I don't know if I had the application for it.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.