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It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather than building up from nothing.

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself.

We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him.

I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.

You're always trying to do something that, on one hand, honors all those stories, that is still in some way the same character that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were doing back in the sixties. But, at the same time, you want to be able to tell new stories and not just rehash what's come before.

I don't feel I have an alter ego.

I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.

Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.

Stories don't interest me.