I've been a big Chapstick fan since I was a kid. I love lathering it on. I probably use a bit more Chapstick than necessary.
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
I just always really wanted to swim. It was always a family thing: dad obviously swam, and my sister did, too. And mum used to come along to meets. They had to drag me out of the pool - so there was never any pressure on me to swim. It was just something I loved doing.
I have been dyeing my hair since I was, like, 2.
I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because, from about the age of five, I was one of those children who always had his nose in a book.
It's very natural and simple to me, drawing, because I've drawn since I was a kid. It's just the most normal thing for me to do. And it's very meditative.
I was always talking in weird voices from the time I was two. I guess I just found a way to keep doing it! I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes... but most of it is just the same stuff I was doing as a kid!
Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.
I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
I was a big TV kid.When I was a kid, I would go home at 3:00 and watch TV straight through to the end of Letterman at 1:30 in the morning.I was obsessed with comics.And I would watch Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno and study them as if it was Tolstoy.
I've been cycling ever since I was a kid. I remember taking my cycling proficiency test aged seven - I got to school at 7:30 A.M. to practise, I was so nervous. After that, I always cycled to school.
I love that vision-board thing where you cut out pictures that resonate with you so they'll manifest. I've done that since I was three; I cut out pictures of ladies from the JCPenney catalog.
If I'm super scared or sick, I'll still suck my thumb.
I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.
I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.
Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.
I've always loved glasses. Always have. I've worn glasses since I was in the fifth grade.
I was one of those kids who always wrote.
I like breakfast food - like three pancakes, bacon, eggs, and a smoothie. Growing up, I would be up all night and had trouble getting up. So my mom started making me a smoothie as a treat if I woke up at a certain time.
I wouldn't say there was a moment of realization when I wanted to be a runner; it was always just something I was.
I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them.
I was always doodling house sketches.
I am glad to say that I used to read a lot right from a young age.
I watched 'Match of the Day' growing up every week and I'm talking until I was 29-years-old.
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.
