When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.

I probably felt most out of place as a young kid growing up in Sri Lanka. My mental world was somewhere else, partly because of reading and daydreaming.

My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.

Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.

I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.