The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.

I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.

You always kill the one you love.

You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked.

There will always be an underground.