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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.

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.

I love doing sketches, but I don't relish being by myself. That's not something I'm used to doing.

I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.

I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the artistic form manifests itself in different ways. When I was younger, I used to draw murals for people.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

Drawing was a cheap way for me to express myself. It gave a focus to my thinking and my life from a very early age.

Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me.