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As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.

There are so many different reasons as to why I love riding trains. But I think ultimately it's the romantic feeling of it. There's something about it that just transports me into old films.

I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

I was 10 years old, taking the train by myself to see Saturday matinees, something you'd never let a kid do now. I got very hooked on it.

I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern Railway, what used to be the Western region, and in Europe as much as I could afford it. My parents used to think I was going places, but I wasn't, I was just travelling the trains.

I think one reason, obviously, that I spend so much time in one place is that I've been lucky enough to travel a lot, and now there are other different, invisible trains that are more interesting to me.

As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.

As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.

As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had pets.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.