One day I want to write a full-on horror book.

The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.

It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of pages without any sort of payoff. That's why writing isn't a one-way street. You have to give something back: an interesting plot, a surprise, a laugh, a moment of tenderness, a mystery for the reader to piece together.

I have always wanted to be either a cinematographer or a veterinarian.

There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.

I'm really much better at asking questions than answering them, since asking questions is like a constant deflection of oneself.

Now we're in an age of singles. It's actually always been more about singles for most of music history.