...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in The Conversation to the sound of some fragile piano notes that were the loneliest Harry had ever heard.

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.

What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?

What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.