The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.