I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.

If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.

I think I thrive under pressure.

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

No pressure, no diamonds.

I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.