I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has.

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.