I'm very comfortable writing.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Everyone knows everything eventually.

We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.

I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.

I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.