The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.

I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.

You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

You really can expand the boundaries of your life and do risky things and prove yourself by doing them.

Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're in.

That arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of things, and then life does its stuff, and you get smashed around and beaten up. You get full of doubts, and you end up making a person out of those bits and pieces.