We’re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.