These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.

I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.

I know most people don't like to be around teenagers but I do. I'm one of the only people I can think of who can't wait for my kid to be a teenager. I think being a teenager is one of the most wonderful things in the world. I really enjoyed it - just this heightened emotional state where everything is beautiful and everything is new and you're convinced that you're really going to break the mould and be different from your parents. And the best part is that you have so much more time that you didn't have as a child.

Honestly, this will never happen because she's so much classier than me, but I would love to work with Sofia Coppola.

When you're trying to come up with an idea for a movie it's actually the hardest part - the germ of the idea. Inevitably you think of something that would be great and then discover that it was on an episode of The Simpsons.

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.