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

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

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.

His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin, your flesh, your bones.

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.