Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point.

I stare to memorize your face, to kiss you in my mind, love you all the time.

My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in.

What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.