P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.

I'd started doing fanzines from the age of nine. I'd been doing as many copies as you can get carbon paper into an upright typewriter, and I'd try to sell them at school.

Though I don't have any serious argument with Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods', I believe that Americans cease to be Europeans - the land makes them become Americans. You see it happening all the time when you travel around America.

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

There's nobody in the arts in my family. It was kind of embarrassing to even say that I wanted to be an actor.

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

I have worked extraordinarily hard for decades to ensure the success of our family business for all of the Middleton family.