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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

I think the most important thing you can do is to keep drawing no matter what. And to not be afraid of drawing whatever interests you. If there is something that you want to draw, to make, then I think you should pursue it and not let anybody tell you that you can't do it.

Lose your inhibitions about drawing and just do it.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.