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I did painting before I did photography.

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.

I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

People ask me, 'What happened in your life that might have pushed you as an artist to get to where you are today?' I always felt a little on the outside. And as such, you're always observing things. So, I'd be kind of re-creating these things in my mind, and I think drawing it was a way to deal with that.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

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.