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

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.

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

When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.

My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.

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