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

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

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.

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.

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