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One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

I wanted to make some of the really important things of my generation and some of the biggest.

I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.

I hope that I can be an inspiration to kids that are young and may feel different or may feel like they don't belong.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that's young, happy and fun.

I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to enrich your life in so many ways.

What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.