And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.