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

I'm old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use charcoal and graphite; I put a skylight in. In my house, I turned the garage into an art studio. So I'm awash in art studios.

Sketching is like dancing. It's process as much as product. You can turn your head off and just sort of dissolve into the now. Doing a giant, super thought-out painting is the opposite of that.

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no.

I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.

I always start a painting with the sky.

When I'm drawing, I only do that at home, really, at my drawing table. But writing I could do in other places. So I've written in airports, in hotels, different places.