I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other. I've always been very affected by politics, society, but I never got to a place as a writer where I felt like I could begin to deal with such things and do it well.

But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.

You go back and look at some of the ancient writings that exist throughout the world about wars and it's the same; the human beings' articulation of events is the same. That really fascinated me.

What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.