Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

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.

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.

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.

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

I'm a huge Peter Mayer fan, but only when I don't feel like killing him for being so good. I love Peter's work, though it irritates me that he plays so much better than I do. If I rocked half as hard as Peter does, I'd own the world by now.

I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd 'never met one' were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open.