I really like older writers, perhaps because they take me out of my element. I don't have a great deal of interest in reading a fictionalized present as it's pretty insane as it is.

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.

I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.