It was never a question of whether I wanted to write or not. I just always have.  It has always been interesting to see people respond to my writing, and that they have a response at all is an endless source of fascination to me.   I've never been one to make a study of  styles, techniques or authors. Whenever I come across something that seems to resonate on some level, I just try to "make it my own." But probably my biggest influences have been Robert Silverberg, Salvadore Dali, The Heisenberg Uncertainty Prinicple, Hunter S. Thompson, The Book of Job, The Sermon on the Mount, Jerry Uelsmann, Ozzy Osbourne and Ed Wood.  Of course there are more, but those are the ones that come to mind right now.

I've achieved little, been certified for nothing, and have been awarded a clean conscience