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

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.

Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won.

Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely.

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

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.