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

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

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

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

I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.

A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.