Neil Gaiman: "On a day to day basis I don't give a lot of thought to the me in other people's heads -- whenever I hear stories about 'Neil Gaiman' they are always so strange and unlikely (and, in the main, untrue), and they bear so little resemblance to the me that potters about the garden that I've long since resigned myself to the idea that there is a smooth pale bloke in dark glasses and a leather jacket walking the earth late at night being cool, and then there's me at (mostly) home, who writes stories, and reads bedtime stories to Maddy, and wonders about ways to scare off the asparagus beetles, and copes with deadlines or doesn't."