Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

I am always trying to do something new and different. The first step is curiosity, questions. You pay attention to what fascinates you. If you can't shake it, there is something there.

That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.