I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.

When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.

I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.

When I was a young girl, I wasn't always trying to have curly hair.

I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore.