The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later.
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
The story of 'Libra Scale,' the storyline was created first, and then the music was created around the story line.
After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.
I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.
I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.
It takes a while to get a movie together, and they don't start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.
In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
The first album didn't become successful until the second was practically written.
