The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible - elves probably more so.

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.

Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing... sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.

I've always been interested in the outsider.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

Under the skin, intense fires burn.