Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.

I've always assumed from the beginning that I had relatively few contemporaries among my readership. Not that I was consciously writing for a younger audience but that what I was doing interested a younger audience, or at least threatened them less.

The street has its own use for things.

I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.

I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there for me. I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.