When you're born with a tail, you learn to go through doors fast..

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded to it and I liked whatever….

I had a Masters of Fine Arts, but so did thousands of other graduates every year, and we were all competing for the same jobs. I realistically didn't….

I'm interested in that way we perceive things, and that was part of what I was getting into in painting - the idea of perception and how information ….

I've tried over the years all kinds of ways of going about writing and even just thinking about the idea of writing. There was a time when I decided ….

That's something that seems to happen when I'm writing, where maybe things that don't necessarily make a lot of logical sense are put together, and y….

I was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching, and it was something I was pu….

If I had a normal life Id quite cheerfully go mad and fall over right now.

I had stopped painting around 2000, which I guess was when the music thing started getting pretty busy. I just didn't have enough time to pursue it p….

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded to it and I liked whatever….