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

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

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

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.

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

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.