I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

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

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.

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

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write. Although they've nothing much to say, They write and write it anyway.