It's always fun to welcome new people into your life. When dating anyone or becoming friends with anyone who has a different profession, a different life, it opens doors. All my friends here do such different creative things. It's so awesome.

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

I feel that I'm solid at description.

I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.

You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.

It's just as political, what you do in the bedroom is just as political as what you do in public.

There's something about fear and aesthetic that go hand in hand.