I know I did always want to have a job in the police department. I used to be assigned to a couple departments, working together with other inspectors...

[Simpler times overall]

Most of what I'm good at came from the training I received. Other than that I have some artistic skills, but nobody survives as an artist.

[Mouri does have artistic sense - for example he managed to make a pile of can of beers that, when shone upon with a light, would show his wife's silhouette in the shadow - but he is no artist. No way he could do anything with that]