I'm into the game. I'm a scrappy player who tries to make his teammates better. I want to be known for hustling and showing a lot of enthusiasm. I want to make an impact.

The people who did most of the crimes when I was growing up weren't really into sports. I got around a bunch of people who liked sports, had positive goals and wanted to do something good.

I'm blessed to be here. Coming out of high school, I never thought I could be in Florida playing baseball, getting so much exposure to scouts and stuff. I'm trying to soak it in and take as much out of it as I can.

So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.

I grew up on all of the great spy movies and TV series of the Sixties - not just Bond, but Derek Flint and the Avengers and Modesty Blaise and the Man from UNCLE and on and on. Every time I sit down to work on Cinderella, I'm writing a love letter to all of those characters.

There was an enormous revival of pulp fiction that started in the '60s and continued into the '70s, which in large part gave rise to things like 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones,' among others. But I developed an appetite for the original stuff at the time, and that appetite has never really abated.