Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

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.

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.