Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.

I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.

Some artists see a gig as an audience worshipping them. I think it is about having a great time together. I have a part as the singer. An audience has a part. Playing a gig doesn't make me high on myself.

Just imagine walking away from something you've started. Something you really believed would be good. I don't think I could ever do that.

A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do.

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.